Digital Communication

August Debouzy

Grégoire Desrousseaux

Grégoire Desrousseaux began his career as a French and European patent attorney before being admitted to the Paris Bar in 2000 and joining August Debouzy as a partner in 2011. ...

Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling Patent- & Rechtsanwälte

Jörg Kohlschmidt

Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.) German Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney Technical areas of expertise: Data protocols and bus systems Elect ...

Cases

Aerospace

Fatal comma error: EPO nullifies Boeing communication patent

It was a small punctuation mark with major repercussions. The EPO Board of Appeal has nullified a Boeing patent due to the inconsistent placement of a ...

7 April 2021 by Konstanze Richter

23 March 2021 by Amy Sandys

Kirkland & Ellis

Steven Baldwin

Steven Baldwin is a partner in Kirkland’s IP Litigation team in London with significant experience representing clients in patent, life sciences regulatory, trademark, copyrig ...

Cases

The Netherlands

Assia loses appeal against KPN and Nokia over data transmission patent

The Court of Appeal in The Hague has handed down its appeal decision in a case between Assia, and KPN and Nokia. The court upheld the decision from th ...

Oscar Lamme

Oscar is a partner in the IP practice in the Netherlands. He specialises in international patent litigation and other technology-related litigation. Having a background in eng ...

Michael Burdon

Michael is a widely acknowledged expert in the field of Intellectual Property, especially in relation to complex, high-value, multi-country patent disputes. He also works clos ...

Kevin Cordina

Kevin is a European Patent Attorney and Head of the Patent Prosecution group of Simmons & Simmons, specialising in commercially-focused patent prosecution advice, and cont ...

Dr. Thomas Gniadek

Thomas is a patent litigator and partner with Simmons & Simmons LLP based in Munich, Germany. His practice covers a broad range of technical fields spanning from teleco ...

Eva Geschke

Eva Geschke is a partner at Wildanger Kehrwald Graf von Schwerin & Partners mbB, one of the remaining specialised Dusseldorf boutiques focused solely on IP work. The firm ...

Dr. Roland Kehrwald

Dr. Roland Kehrwald specialises in the areas of patent, trademark, utility model and unfair competition law, providing advice and conducting litigation for clients. He has man ...

Wolf Graf von Schwerin

Wolf Graf von Schwerin has covered a wide range of IP issues throughout his career. In the more than 30 years that he has been practicing law, he has worked on a remarkable va ...

Jörg Schmidt

For many years, Joerg Schmidt has represented and advised clients in the areas of patent and utility model law, as well as design patent, trademark and unfair competition law. ...

Peter-Michael Weisse, LL.M.

Peter-Michael Weisse primarily focuses on patent law. He handles patent infringement cases before national courts throughout Germany, often with parallel proceedings around th ...