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The German economy has experienced minimal growth for a number of years. Insolvencies have reached record levels, and the number of businesses outside of formal insolvency proceedings, but in need of restructuring, is significant.

Hohe Verschuldungsgrade begrenzen den Finanzierungsspielraum weiter und erfordern kurzfristige Maßnahmen...

The European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.01 examined whether using a QR code's rotational angle as an additional input parameter for information retrieval constitutes a technical contribution to patentability.

Changes to the German investment industry, including a combination of new types of fund offerings and a liberalization and improvement of the previous regulatory scheme, have been implemented by an Act amending the German Investment Act and related provisions of other laws ("Investmentänderungsgesetz", the "Act").

On November 25, 2011 the "Act Reforming the Laws on Intermediaries for Financial Investments and on Investment Products" passed the "Bundesrat" (upper house of the German Parliament) without objection.

In Germany, as in other industrialized countries, the vast majority of inventions and other creative developments are made by employees. In comparison to the laws regarding employee inventions in many other countries, German laws are unusual: as a matter of principle, an invention made by an employee belongs to the employee.

The finance ministry has published its draft bill to transpose various EU amendments and ECJ cases into national law whilst taking the opportunity to make a number of editorial changes.

The European Patent Office refused to grant a patent for a method of developing rod patterns in nuclear reactors based on simulation, ruling that the claimed features do not produce a technical effect. This decision examines whether simulation results for reactor design constitute technical contributions when the rod patterns are not directly implemented in actual reactors and may have non-technical uses such as study purposes.

On 1 October 2003, the European Commission published its draft block exemption Regulation on the application of Article 81(3) EC Treaty to technology transfer agreements<SUP>1</SUP> ("<B>Draft TTBER</B>").

Business and corporate investments, transactions and reorganizations are often driven (even if only in part) by tax issues.

Since 1999, following a change in German tax laws, investors in Media Funds have been permitted write off 100% of an investment against their taxes in the year the investment is made.

On 8 November 2007 the Deutscher Bundestag, the German parliament, passed an act (the Amendment Act) amending the German Investment Act (the Investment Act).