The following represents a carefully curated selection of our recent Thought Leadership contributions:

HGF Attorney at Law, Olivia Petter, has contributed to a new book ‘Winning with IP: Managing Intellectual Property Today'.

On May 6, 2024, the German Data Protection Conference ("DSK"),published a guidance on the use of generative AI ("DSK GenAI") incompliance with the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes users' real environment with digitally created content. In the recent past, the AR application "Pokémon Go" has gained particular recognition.

In Germany, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, considered two amendments to the Constitution as part of an ambitious plan to strengthen cyber security across the nation.

So far you have probably only heard of blockchain in connection with financial transactions and Bitcoins

Dem Urteil des Kammergerichts lag ein Strafverfahren gegen den Betreiber einer Online-Handelsplattform für Bitcoins zugrunde.

The Tech 10 is a video series exploring the key questions driving technological change and innovation today.

Researchers at Sophos have recently encountered a new malware developed to terminate EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) processes in an attack using Ransomhub ransomware.

On January 10, 2019, Munich Higher Regional Court ruled (Case 29 U 1091/18) in favor of a lawsuit brought by the North Rhine-Westphalia Verbraucherzentrale ...

Perhaps emboldened by the Article 29 Working Party's late July announcement that European regulators will not challenge the program's adequacy for at least a year.

Technological progress allows employers to monitor their employees during working hours in ways that are no longer merely theoretical.

According to a press release dated 16 May 2017, and following the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) preliminary ruling in Case C-582/14 dated 19 October 2016 ...

Digitization of today's working world is ever progressing. Almost on a daily basis, we are facing new forms of work or at least new terminology.

On July 20, 2019 the German tax court for the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg published the first decision of a German tax court on the qualification of "bitcoins" in a provisional legal protection procedure.

Unlike in most other European jurisdictions the regulatory practice in Germany has been to treat Bitcoins as units of account and as such financial instruments pursuant to Section 1 German Banking Act.

March came with seven new decisions in the EUROPEAN SOFTWARE PATENTS knowledge base relating to artificial intelligence, computer simulations, information modelling and Internet search engines:

Die US-Wahl 2024 war in vielerlei Hinsicht historisch. Neben den internationalen Krisenherden in Europa und dem Nahen Osten polarisierten nationale Themen wie Immigration.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make work life easier. It is therefore not surprising that companies are keen to utilize the technical possibilities of AI...

Kryptowährungen und insbesondere Bitcoin erfreuen sich zunehmender Bekanntheit.