by Bernward Zollner
Earlier this year the Ministry of Justice has submitted a bill which intends to grant a better protection to license agreements in case the licensor has to file a motion for the…
By Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen
Under paragraph 103 of the German Insolvency Act, an insolvency practitioner has the right to choose whether or not to honour existing contracts of the insolvent…
In my blog of 10 June 2011 I had reported about the decision by the Landgericht Duesseldorf "Pramipexol" (4a O 277/10) where the Court of first Instance had granted a PI based on an anonymous…
by Stephan Lieck
The Düsseldorf Regional Court had to decide whether it is misleading under competition law that the former proprietor of a patent advertises with the fact that there is patent…
by Miriam Büttner
In a recent decision of 15 September 2011 (ref. no. 4b O 99/11) the District Court of Düsseldorf (LG Düsseldorf) found that a non-final decision of the utility model cancel-lation…
Part 1 of the drama with the title "You Shall not Lie" is covered by a previous post.Part 2 has been briefly summarized two weeks ago by Miriam.
It appeared to me that the potential consequences of…
by Miriam Büttner
This is a follow-up to the article of my colleague, Eike Schaper, of 17 August 2010 in which he refers to a ruling of the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal concerning the value in patent…
This is to report on a new tendency in the jurisdiction of the Federal Patent Court to use the prerequisite of enabling disclosure (Art. 83 EPC) as an unpredictable rule of reason for patentability…
by Max v. Rospatt
In a recent decision the Landgericht Duesseldorf (4a O 277/10 – Pramipexol) issued a preliminary injunction against a generic company before the generic was listed in one of the…
