People & Business

Austria's patent firms take generational leap

Austria is ready for the Unified Patent Court and business at Vienna's patent firms is stable. However, the JUVE Patent ranking analysis 2019 shows the country’s leading patent litigation firms are on ...

22 August 2019 by Mathieu Klos

JUVE Rankings 2018

Top patent filing and litigation firms in Germany

22 August 2019 by JUVE

Interview

“The co-head role will highlight the best of the UK and continental European systems.”

Dentons has appointed Milan-based partner Giovanni Casucci and London-based partner Campbell Forsyth as Co-Heads of the Europe Patent Litigation pract ...

1 August 2019 by Amy Sandys

Interview

“We have a challenge with the case backlog at the Boards of Appeal”

Swedish judge Carl Josefsson is the first president of the Boards of Appeal and chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal. This is the highest judicial ...

26 July 2019 by Christina Schulze

Germany

EIP hires Bird & Bird counsel as new partner

The Düsseldorf office of EIP has hired Florian Schmidt-Bogatzky (47) as partner. At Bird & Bird for 14 years, he joins EIP on 1 August. His hire is pa ...

25 July 2019 by Amy Sandys

Spain

Bardehle Pagenberg hires new partner in Spain

German firm Bardehle Pagenberg has hired Mathieu de Rooij (41) as a partner in its Barcelona office. His practice focuses particularly on renewable en ...

24 July 2019 by Amy Sandys

In-house

Thyssenkrupp Intellectual Property appoints new IP head

In early July, Thyssenkrupp Intellectual Property made patent attorney Stephan Kohlhof head of its Elevator Technology IP team. Thyssenkrupp bundles a ...

22 July 2019 by Christina Schulze

UK judiciary

Richard Arnold announced as UK Court of Appeal judge

Richard Arnold has been appointed today as one of five judges at the UK Court of Appeal. A specialist in intellectual property, Arnold previously serv ...

16 July 2019 by Amy Sandys

Munich

New hire for Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling

Six months ago, patent attorneys Friedrich Emmerling and Karl-Ulrich Braun-Dullaeus founded a new law firm. Now the firm, which specialises in mobile ...

10 July 2019 by Mathieu Klos

Paris

Reed Smith expands Paris office with Dentons hire

US firm Reed Smith has hired Marianne Schaffner from Dentons as partner in its Paris office. This comes amid a push by the firm to expand its European ...

8 July 2019 by Amy Sandys

Munich

Mathys & Squire opens in Munich with team from Herzog Fiesser & Partner

Mathys & Squire is to open its third office on the European continent in Munich. The British firm recruited a team of four patent attorneys from Herzo ...

2 July 2019 by Konstanze Richter

European Patent Office

Administrative Council adopts Campinos' new EPO strategy

The European Patent Office has formulated a new vision for the next five years. A new EPO strategy was adopted by the office's 38 member states yester ...

27 June 2019 by Mathieu Klos

London

Gowling grows London office with Norton Rose partner hires

The London office of Gowling WLG has hired two Norton Rose Fulbright partners for its patent team. Huw Evans joined the firm in June, with Jonathan Ba ...

24 June 2019 by Amy Sandys

London

EIP hires patent partner from Browne Jacobsen

EIP has bolstered its patent litigation group with the hire of a new partner. Kathleen Fox Murphy joins the firm from UK-based law firm Browne Jacobse ...

21 June 2019 by Amy Sandys

SEP licensing guidelines

Advice published for Internet of Things roll-out

The App Association and the Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), in conjunction with the Deutsches Institut für Normung, has published a set of guidelines o ...

12 June 2019 by Amy Sandys

Licensing agreement

Canon agrees on NFC licence from France Brevets

France Brevets has granted its first near field communication (NFC) licence outside the mobile phone industry. Japanese optical product manufacturer C ...

28 May 2019 by Christina Schulze