Pending decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) G1/24

BGH cancels position mark ‘sole pattern’ (I ZB 59/23)

Lego may defend the design protection of a building block before the General Court

New ECTA Patent Committee: mission, vision, and destiny

Order of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court concerning the effective service of an application

Enlarged Board of Appeal sets new EPO priority rules

A dynamic and exciting area of IP law: #patents.

Landmark decision on platform liability in design law

Board of directors and managing directors not personally liable for a company’s antitrust fines

Black Friday” trademark must be cancelled

Germany has deposited its instrument of ratification for the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

The ending of the German-Swiss Trademark Agreement of 1892

NFT judgement: Hermès wins NFT lawsuit for trademark infringement

Constitutional complaints concerning the legal protection system of the European Patent Office unsuccessful in the result

MSP succeeds in registering the position mark “red dot” on the wheel hub for commercial vehicle axles for SAF Holland Group

UPC – Start of the sunrise period postponed to 01 March 2023

Unified Patent Court appoints experienced German judges

The Unitary Patent System is imminent!

New EU competition rules on horizontal agreements

An invention cannot be carried out if the means for realising the technical teaching are not indicated

Opposition or nullity proceedings no longer required for preliminary injunction for patent infringement

No IP protection in Russia for EU companies

EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeals confirms prohibition of double patenting

NFT the new hype – what to watch out for from an intellectual property perspective

Moon Boot – EU General Court upholds finding of partial invalidity of the Moon Boot 3D mark

Provisional application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court begins

Calculation of the claim for damages in the case of use of a trademark solely in advertising possible within the scope of the license analogy

An artificial intelligence system cannot be the inventor of a patent

G 1/21 – Oral proceedings as videoconference without consent of the parties?

Current Case Law on sufficient disclosure of inventions

Current case law of the European Patent Office on simulation methods and digital patents

Law for the Simplification and Modernisation of Patent Law

Interpretation of Art. 13 (2) of the new Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO

The nullity of trademarks due to non-use – decision of the Federal Supreme Court of 14.02.2021, I ZR 40/20 –

ECJ – LEGO wins step by step, registered European design remains protectable

Board of Appeal of the EPO: An alleged non-obvious effect of a feature cannot support inventive step

EU Expert Group on SEPs publishes discussion paper

Abolition of the „flying jurisdiction” in competition law

International Convention on the Enforcement of Mediation Results

Bundestag paves way for the Unified European Patent Court

BGH: Interest in legal protection regarding dependent claims and further independent claims in a patent nullity action

New Chamber for Copyright Law at the Regional Court Munich I

German Bundesrat confirms Law to Strengthen Fair Competition

BGH: Defense of a patent in the appeal instance in patent nullity proceedings with amended claims

Federal Supreme Court (BGH): Square packaging for Ritter Sport chocolate remains protected as a trademark

German Federal Constitutional Court declares UPC Agreement void

UK is leaving the EU

Federal Supreme Court confirmed trademark infringement by third-party linked Google advertisements

German design law: Federal Court of Justice overturns the “overlap theory”

The new Protection of Trade Secrets has taken effect on April 26, 2019!

ECTA ®ETREAT Follow-up

Müller Schupfner & Partner organizes and moderates the ECTA MUNICH ®ETREAT

The new German Trademark Law Act takes effect today!

New Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal

Court of Justice of the European Union: registrable European Union trademark “Neuschwanstein”

Federal Supreme Court confirms: “digestible” beer is an inadmissible advertising statement for beer with a content of more than 1.2 volume percent alcohol

Trademarks and designs if there’s no Brexit deal?

Federal Court of Justice (BGH) for the motivation of the usage of the general knowledge of the person skilled in the art – Kinderbett

Louboutins and the red shoe sole – coloured position trademark?

Brexit and Intellectual Property rights

ECTA MUNICH ®ETREAT

Federal Court of Justice suspends the deletion of two three-dimensional square packaging trademarks for chocolate bars of the chocolate manufacturer “Ritter Sport”

Müller Schupfner & Partner organizes and moderates the ECTA MUNICH ®ETREAT

Oral proceedings as video conference – major differences between EPO and DPMA