People & Business

Latest EPO financial study suggests no harmonious future

The European Patent Office is facing a huge pension gap of several billion euros in the coming years. Initial proposals for savings also affect future ...

18 October 2019 by Konstanze Richter

UK judiciary

Richard Arnold becomes Lord Justice of the Appeal

Today, Richard Arnold was sworn in as the new IP judge at the UK Court of Appeal. This leaves an opening for a new patent judge to take a seat at the ...

17 October 2019 by Amy Sandys

European strategy

Mathys & Squire expands European capabilities with Munich hire

Mathys & Squire has announced the hire of Andreas Wietzke, a new partner for its Munich office. Wietzke joins the UK IP firm today, 15 October, around ...

15 October 2019 by Amy Sandys

France

Clifford Chance resurrects patent practice with August & Debouzy counsel

Loïc Lemercier has been hired to help rebuild Clifford Chance's patent practice in Paris. Lemercier, who is moving from full-service French law firm A ...

8 October 2019 by Konstanze Richter

Belgium

Stibbe expands patent practice in Brussels

International firm Stibbe has hired Philippe Campolini as a partner in its Brussels office. Campolini specialises in life sciences and joins one other ...

10 September 2019 by Amy Sandys

Fieldfisher partner joins Pinsent Masons in London

Nicole Jadeja is a new addition to the life sciences team at the London office of Pinsent Masons. Jadeja's hire comes amid a wider push by the firm to ...

4 September 2019 by Amy Sandys

German Federal Court of Justice

SEP cases left up in the air as Meier-Beck changes role

After months of speculation the German Federal Court of Justice has today announced a new senate, which is to focus on antitrust law. Presiding judge ...

2 September 2019 by Mathieu Klos

Austria patent rankings

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 th ...

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