In der aktuellen Ausgabe widmen wir uns der Zukunft des autonomen Fahrens sowie den Herausforderungen und nötigen Schritten auf dem Weg dorthin.

With the RESourceEU Action Plan, the European Commission is providing a key industrial policy impetus to secure critical raw materials in Europe.

Preis, Reichweite und Ladeinfrastruktur gehören zu den großen Herausforderungen der Zukunft

The term "Cloud Computing" is generally used to describe services through which a company accesses software applications, databases, infrastructure and related services via the Internet or other networks.

Wie chinesisch muss ein deutsches Automobilunternehmen werden, um weiterhin erfolgreich in China zu sein?

A European patent application for a method of estimating departure times for scheduled events was refused by the Technical Board of Appeal. The Board found that effects resulting from modified business schemes cannot contribute to technical character, and that inherent effects from computer implementation are insufficient without achieving a "further" technical effect beyond normal computational processes.

A European Patent Office Technical Board of Appeal decision examines whether incorporating energy costs into blow molder input parameters constitutes an inventive step over prior art that considered energy efficiency. The central dispute revolves around whether "energy costs" encompasses energy consumption or is limited to monetary costs, and whether a claim broad enough to produce results indistinguishable from prior art can satisfy inventive step requirements.

A European Patent Office Board of Appeal decision examines whether implementing an interactive seat map using raster graphics with HTML coded image maps instead of vector graphics like Adobe Flash constitutes a technical contribution sufficient for patent eligibility. The case explores the boundary between technical implementation choices and mere presentation of information in web-based applications.

We are developing a new space strategy taking into account the avoidance and recovery of space debris.

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.

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>").

European economies face unprecedented pressure from geopolitical tensions and the need to accelerate growth in critical industries like defense and emerging technologies. This comprehensive analysis examines how EU regulation functions both as a constraint on transaction execution and as a strategic instrument of industrial policy, exploring the evolving regulatory landscape shaping foreign direct investment and M&A activity.