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Morten Garberg of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry group discusses the novelty of numerical ranges in a patent claim in view of more recent decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Boards of...

HOFFMANN EITLE provide a summary of key judgments in patent litigation with a particular focus on the UK and Germany, but also including case law from the Netherlands and Poland.

Dr. Bernd Kröger and Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry group discuss a recent patent case in Germany concerning the pharmaceutical active ingredient known as leflunomide.

HOFFMANN EITLE provide a summary of key judgments on remaking, validity and infringement, with a particular focus on the UK and Germany.

Dr. Marco Retzlaff and Dr. Peter Klusmann of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry group provide an update on the EPO's current handling of "late-filed" facts and arguments before its Boards of Appeal.

Author(s): Dr. M. Kindler, Dr. K. Stratmann In the August 2012 issue of "Patents & Licensing", Dr. Matthias Kindler and Dr. Klemens Stratmann of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department summarize seven decisions...

Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department takes a look at an interesting patent case both from an EPO and a national litigation perspective.

More than 50 legal practitioners and scholars from Japan and Germany have commented on 72 landmark cases of the Japanese courts in the various fields of business law, in particular intellectual...

A unique compilation of articles has been published on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Guntram Rahn as partner and head of HOFFMANN EITLE's legal department.

Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department analyzes the history of the efforts to create a unitary European Patent and provides an outlook of how this might actually be established...