If the Defendant deals extensively with license negotiations between itself and a patent pool in the context of the substantiation of the FRAND...

Companies are often confronted with the problem that information appears relevant even if it does not fall within the scope of a classic IP right.

The EU Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2084) entered into force on 11 January 2024 and has been fully applicable since 12 September 2025.

Am 14. Januar 2020 hat das Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz einen Diskussionsentwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Vereinfachung und Modernisierung des Patentrechts ...

Finally, German parliament is about to vote on the draft Act on the Protection of Business Secrets (Gesetz zum Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen).

On June 10, 2021, the German parliament adopted the version of the government bill for a Second Act concerning the Simplification and Modernization of German Patent Law (parliamentary paper 19/25821)...

The judgment resulted from a reference made by the Court of Appeal for England and Wales in an action initiated by Intel Corp. against CPM, seeking cancellation of CPM’s INTELMARK mark registered for services in cl. 35 on the basis of Intel’s earlier INTEL marks protected for dissimilar goods.

European legislators have recognised that data is an essential resource which is required for the digital transformation to be successful and an economic asset...