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"Seven Recent CJEU Decisions in SPC Matters" in Patents & Licensing, August 2012, Vol. 42, No. 4, 31-35

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...

"Litigation and EPO Oppositions/Appeals Related to Oxycodone" in Patents & Licensing, June 2012, Vol. 42, No. 3, 27-30

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.

"Business Law in Japan – Cases and Comments: Intellectual Property, Civil, Commercial and International Private Law"

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...

"Patent Practice in Japan and Europe: Liber Amicorum for Guntram Rahn"

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.

"The Thorny Path towards a Unitary European Patent - Update on the Latest Developments" in Patents & Licensing, June 2011, Vol. 41, No. 3, 25-29

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...

"License Agreements with German Companies", in: Legal Counseling on Intellectual Property License Agreements (Revised Edition), ed. Yamagami/Fujikawa (Tokyo 2011), p. 854-866 (in Japanese)

This Japanese-Language compendium (Japanese Title: "Chizai License Keiyaku no Hōritsu Sōdan") addresses legal questions that often arise out of intellectual property license agreements.

"Cloud Computing Inventions - Patentability and Infringement Under Current European/German Law" in Patents & Licensing, April 2011, Vol. 41, No. 2, 25-32

Dr. Thomas B. Koch and Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Hansis of HOFFMANN EITLE's electrical engineering department discuss the impact of cloud computing on claim drafting and infringement.

Now available: 2nd edition of "Concise International and European Law"

Author: Dr. Anja Petersen-Padberg The second Edition of the "Concise International and European IP Law is now available. The book provides a commentary on the following international treaties and EC laws:...

"Lost in Translation? Not Anymore! The Federal Court of Justice of Germany Has Rendered A Decision on Incomplete Translations of European Patents" in the European Intellectual Property Review (eipr), March 2011, Vol. 33, No. 3, 191-193

Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine and Dr. Simon Klopschinski, members of HOFFMANN EITLE's legal department, review a judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice dated March 18, 2010, ruling that an incomplete...

"Problems and Current Solutions of The German Dual Track System in View of a Series of Recent Federal Supreme Court Decision ('Crimping Tool I-IV')" in Patents & Licensing, February 2011, Vol. 41, No. 1, 35-38

Dr. Thomas B. Koch and Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Hansis of HOFFMANN EITLE's electrical engineering department report on and analyze a series of four recent decisions of the Federal Supreme Court ("Bundesgerichtshof", BGH)...