Rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit deal by the UK parliament means the Unified Patent Court will not get off to an orderly start. Although a ‘No Deal’ ...
From the UK’s Supreme Court FRAND decision, to the first case over connected cars in Germany, and patents for pioneering scientific breakthroughs – th ...
There is still no other market in Europe as active as Germany. But although German law firms are doing excellent business, lawyers in Düsseldorf, Mann ...
The development of the Unified Patent Court was never going to be straightforward. But now the possibility of a no-deal Brexit means that Germany’s ra ...
Many had expected a rough start for António Campinos after the Battistelli era. This proved to be true. Just as the new President of the European Pate ...
Rapid innovation and conflicting interests in the pharmaceutical industry are causing trouble for the outdated EU regulation on the supplementary prot ...
Who are the leading litigation firms in the Dutch patent market? Which firm has the best European strategy to succeed for the upcoming Unified Patent ...
Nikon and ASML are locked in a worldwide battle over optical exposure machines for computer chips. It is the biggest patent dispute the Netherlands ha ...
Who are the leading firms in the French patent market? Which firm has the best European strategy to succeed for the upcoming Unified Patent court. Rea ...
Stunning victory or devastating defeat? Pariah or hero? For Ingve Stjerna the stakes are high. And no less for the European patent community: Stjerna ...
Brexit and the German constitutional case have put a spanner in the works of the UPC but law firms in Paris are still gearing up for international pat ...
It was only a year ago that the scandal-plagued EPO was the biggest worry for in-house patent departments. Today it is the UPC case before the German ...
Brexit has put the Unified Patent Court in jeopardy. But those same US firms that use London as a springboard for rolling out their European litigatio ...
There is no other market in the UPC which is as active as Germany. That is due to the sheer size of the market, the attraction of German courts for NP ...
All hopes for a quick ruling by the German Constitutional Court in the complaint against the UPC are dashed. A ruling before 2020 is looking increasin ...
