to grant the patent. Representative for iVis Technologies: BARDEHLE PAGENBERG (Munich): Dr. Hans Wegner (Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney, Partner) Dr. Georg Anetsberger (Patent...

registered trademark DI GIOIA, addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L’Oréal’s distributors in Germany, requesting to immediately stop distribution and destroy all ACQUA DI GIOIA perfume...

European Patent Attorney, Partner) Simon Schopper (Attorney-at-Law) Christof Wolpert (in-house) Representatives of BASF SE (Intervener on the side of adidas): KNPZ Rechtsanwälte (Hamburg, German...

of the Brexit. In any case, unitary patents registered before the Brexit would lose their effects after the Brexit and European patents registered as unitary patents after the Brexit would not...

and cross-border patent litigation. He represents clients in complex patent infringement and nullity proceedings before the Unified Patent Court, German courts as well as in opposition...

confirms its previous case law according to which in the case of combination patents, not only contributory but direct patent infringement is present if the offered or supplied part of a claimed...

(Rechtsanwalt) & European Patent Attorney Bureau Munich +49 89 928 05-581 heselberger(at)bardehle.de Dr. Christof Karl Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt) & German and European Patent Attorney Bureau...

(German and European Patent Attorney, Partner) Simon Schopper (Attorney-at-Law) Dr. Jochen Baumann (German and European Patent Attorney) Christof Wolpert (in-house; Senior Director Patents I...

(if the patent application describes the details on how to reproduce it). 2. Case underlying G 1/23 The appeal proceedings concerned the decision of the Opposition Division rejecting the opposit...

international clients on issues of patent litigation and technology-related copyright law, competition law and antitrust law. He is involved in proceedings relating to patent and copyright...

“purchasing” the patent family (patent families) which the patent-in-suit is part of – allow for reliable conclusions regarding the revenues or profits to be expected specifically in Germany...

is producing and distributing fashionable headphones in over 90 countries worldwide, including Germany. Since 2012, Zound Industries struggles with several competitors (inter alia, Lidl)...

German Patent Law (parliamentary paper 19/25821) as amended by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (parliamentary paper 19/30498; “Patent Law Modernization Act” below). The Pa...

PAGENBERG (Munich) Johannes Heselberger (Attorney-at-Law & European Patent Attorney, Partner) Dr. Axel Berger (Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, Partner) Sträter Rechtsanwälte : Prof....

G1/22 concerns opposition appeal proceedings re European patent EP 1 755 674, whereas the decision G2/22 concerns appeal proceedings re a divisional application of the opposed patent’s patent...

For a patent granted in the course of year 4, the renewal fees for the application and the patent sum up over the 20 years’ full term of the patent, as follows: D. Comments For a typical patent...

assumption of inaccurate prior art described in the patent by mistake. This is because the Plaintiff as patent proprietor should know his own patent and its content in detail. Pursuant to the...

former German design law and published on July 25, 2001, claiming priority from a Japanese design patent application. Overall, this dispute is remarkable for three reasons: First , this case is...