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...

LESI is delighted to announce the upcoming 3rd pan-European YMC Event which will be held in Munich, Germany, on July 3, 2015 (See: www.lesi-ymc-munich2015.com ). This one-day conference will...

(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...

complaint before the German Federal Patent Court against the German Patent DE 10 2009 060 504 B4 owned by the patent asserting company Arigna Technology Ltd. The patent relates to a circuit and...

release of November 28, 2013 In patent nullity proceedings initiated by Vestel Germany, the Federal Patent Court revoked the German part of Thomson Licensing’s European Patent EP 0 679 028 B1 in...

Furthermore, the Court dismissed not only an alleged literal patent infringement but also rejected multiple attempts by DISH to assert equivalent patent infringement. Shortly thereafter, on May...

Sydney. Dr. Wolfgang Flasche German and European Patent Attorney Dr. Wolfgang Flasche earned a doctorate degree in chemistry and has worked as a European Patent Attorney in international...

under a claimant’s and a defendant’s perspective By JUVE PATENT and BARDEHLE PAGENBERG This informal in-house IP networking event by JUVE PATENT and BARDEHLE PAGENBERG featured a keynote speech...

international clients in patent infringement and validity proceedings before national courts, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and the Unified Patent Court....

Justice (“ECJ”) rendered a decision regarding the requirements for the validity assessment of the patent-in-suit in preliminary injunction (“PI”) proceedings. Even though the decision seems to...

Justice (“ECJ”) rendered a decision regarding the requirements for the validity assessment of the patent-in-suit in preliminary injunction (“PI”) proceedings. Even though the decision seems to...

some interesting comments on the question of the extent to which an opposition decision is equivalent to the description of the patent – clarifies that such legal disputes will continue to be...

names the latter as the sole patent proprietor (the “ patent proprietor ”, later the “ appellant ”). The op posed patent was revoked after opposition proceedings, as the priority claim was found...

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...

This appeal concerns the decision of the Opposition Division rejecting the opposition against European patent EP 2 626 911. Its claim 1 specifies a material that is suitable for encapsulating a...

into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA), applicants will have the choice between the unitary patent and the traditional European bundle patent. For a relevant cost-benefit...

d companies (Penta Shoes S.L. and Calzados D’Simons S.L.) before the Regional Court of Cologne (Germany), arguing that the challenged sandals infringe its copyrights on its basic sandal models...

of the patent-in-suit. Sanofi and Regeneron defended the validity of the patent-in-suit against Amgen’s counterclaim for revocation by arguing, inter alia , that the subject-matter of the patent...