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A lot has happened since our last Newsticker in December 2016.

There has been a lot of movement and prognosticating lately in the world of IP to gear up for the future of an oft-forgotten

Besides coverage of the UEFA-championship, news of the UK vote on "Brexit" dominated the news last week.

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) recently dealt with "appropriate compensation" due in cases where a preliminary injunction based on IP rights was lifted or not rectified in subsequent main proceedings.

Wie bereits in unserem Blogartikel vom 19. März 2024 erwähnt (Link), umfasst das Geistige Eigentum mehr als...

As of April 2018, California will allow fully autonomous cars to be tested without safety drivers on public roads. One interesting question in this context is whom to blame for damages caused by...

The Agreement on establishing the Unified Patent Court (UPC) was signed in February 2013 and seeks to establish a unified patent court system across Europe to handle the enforcement of new EU Unitary Patents when they come into effect.

Patents are exclusive rights relating to inventions. Patent registrations grant a time-limited monopoly to apply the patented technology.

On 1 January 2014, the new Product Piracy Regulation (EU) 608/2013 ("PPR 2014") entered into force.

The EPO has announced that the Austrian government has successfully completed its ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA).

The European Patent with Unitary Effect ("Unitary Patent") already has a longstanding and ambiguous history, although its underlying legal framework has not yet come into force.

As we already noted in our blog article of 19 March 2024 (link), intellectual property covers more than "just" trademarks. A design is particularly recommendable if the external...

Was bedeuten die Begriffe "Neuheit" und "Eigenart" und warum sind sie so wichtig?

Unlike national applications, which are protected only in a single country, the EU trademark offers protection in all member states of the European Union.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of… the Unitary Patent. With Germany having deposited its ratification document on 17 February 2023, this spectre is finally coming to life...

Patents and innovation are closely linked. Patents can boost innovation by granting a legal monopoly over certain technology, and inventors may be willing to invest more time, ...

As mentioned in our blog post of 23 April 2024 (link), several criteria must be met to ensure the legal validity of a design registration.