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As part of its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, the European Commission has emphasized the importance of fostering a "trusting, lawful and innovation-driven ecosystem" around online platforms in the EU.

Die Europäische Kommission hatte am 24. April 2018 gegen das Kabel- und Telekommunikationsunternehmen Altice wegen vorzeitiger Durchführung der Übernahme des portugiesischen Telekommunikationsunternehmens ...

The judgment is the first time a German court dealt with the legal qualification of over-the-top (OTT) communications services.

This decision relates to an appeal against a European patent application that concerns providing geo-fences to provide a notification to the mobile device

This decision relates to an Opposition appeal against a granted European patent that concerns providing an option on a user interface with an aim to simplify and speed up the use of a device.

In this decision, the board of appeal made clear that a non-technical feature in a claim does not automatically inherit the technical character of the context in which it occurs.

On 16 June 2020, the "Corona-Warn-App" ("the App") was released by the Federal German government. The tracing App, which uses Bluetooth technology, records which smartphones...

On 1 October 2017, the German Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act, „NetzDG") that we already reported on in April and May, entered into force (English version here).

This decision concerns the way how applications can be installed on a mobile phone's SIM, One might not expect big surprises concerning the technical character in this field, but the board...

This decision is interesting in that it uses the concept of the "notional business person", as it was introduced in T 1463/11, to assess whether a given difference over the prior art achieves a...

A requirement to avoid the unauthorized display of sensitive personal data (such as a user's facial image) during a payment authentication process...

"To improve the enforcement and consistency of data protection, we are strengthening European cooperation, institutionalizing the Data Protection Conference in the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG) and want to enable it to make legally binding decisions where possible."

This decision is a good example of a software tool with very useful functions for the modern office worker, but which does not necessarily qualify as a patentable invention at the European Patent