News & Publications

Over the past two years, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) issued a series of decisions consolidating the previous approach and clarifying some further points concerning inventions in the...

Five attorneys-at-law and one patent attorney of HOFFMANN EITLE comprehensively discuss on more than 100 pages the laws regarding patents and utility models in Japan.

Dr. Marc Dernauer, LL.M., attorney-at-law at HOFFMANN EITLE, discusses the law of standard contract terms and consumer law in Japan.

Dr. Joachim Renken and Dr. Joseph Taormino of HOFFMANN EITLE' biotech department report on the decision C-428/08 ("Monsanto") of the European Court of Justice, clarifying the applicability of the Biotechnology Directive...

Dr. Marc Dernauer und Dr. Clemens Tobias Steins, attorneys-at-law of HOFFMANN EITLE, report on important court decisions of the German Federal Court of Justice (the German Supreme Court in civil matters)...

Our colleague Stephen Avery, partner at HOFFMANN EITLE (London office), has contributed a collection of memorable experiences which he gained in the past 30 years or so of practice at the...

In the May 2010 issue of the magazine "Corporate Counsel", attorney-at-law Angela Wenninger of HOFFMANN EITLE's trademark department reports on the European Court of Justice's (ECJ's) recent decision on the use...

The first special issue of the "Journal of Japanese Law", edited by Dr. Harald Baum and Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz presents the fundamentals of the Japanese law of patents and utility...

All attorneys-at-law or (prospective) patent attorneys of HOFFMANN EITLE, have contributed a comprehensive section on the Japanese law of patents and utility models in the newly published "Handbook on Japanese Commercial...

Peter Schweighart and Henrik Vocke, European and German patent attorneys and partners in HOFFMANN EITLE's mechanical engineering group, have written an article explaining the rules governing utility models in Germany.