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Effects of Brexit on European Union trademarks and registered designs:

Update February 2020 What has happened so far? A brief overview The United Kingdom (UK) formally left the European Union (EU) (Brexit) on January 31, 2020 on the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement...

MIP's EMA Awards 2020

HOFFMANN EITLE has been shortlisted for Managing IP’s EMEA Awards in the categories: Patent Contentious (Patent and Trademark Attorney Firms), Patent Prosecution and Trademark (Patent and Trad...

Special Distinction Award for HE - Best IP Advisor: Austria & Germany

HOFFMANN EITLE is pleased to have been recog­nised with the special distinction award in the category Best IP Advisor: Austria and Germany at the Innovation and IP Forum and Awards in Paris on&nbsp...

epi Information September 2019

Who bears the burden to show that an objective technical problem has been credibly solved? S. Kutik (IT), J. Renken (DE), German and European Patent Attorneys Under the EPO’s problem solution app...

HOFFMANN EITLE congratulates newly qualified European Patent Attorneys

We are proud to announce that nine of our colleagues have passed the European Qualifying Examination 2019. Congratulations go to (in alphabetical order) Andreas Beer (Mechanik, Munich) Rifat C...

Revised Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) will enter into force on 1 January 2020

On 1 January 2020, a revised version of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) will enter into force. The new rules include several significant changes and introduce stricter standar...

Summary on the Latest Amendments to the German Trademark Act

Angela Wenninger-Lenz and Felicitas Richter, both German attorneys at law and members of the Soft IP group at HOFFMANN EITLE, have compiled a summary of the latest amendments to the German Trademar...

UPDATED: Possible effects of Brexit on European Union trademarks

Debra Lewis, UK and European Patent and Trademark Attorney, and Felicitas Richter, German attorney-at-law in the soft-IP group at HOFFMANN EITLE, have compiled a summary about the latest Brexit dev...

The HAAR in the Soup

Dr. Thorsten Bausch, German and European Patent Attorney and member of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry team, has recently commented on an interesting referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal. The questi...

The European Patent Convention for Foreign Practitioners

Read the complete book here. Transcript: Table of Contents PART A Substantive Requirements of European Patent Law Disclosure concepts and novelty Inventive Step Prior Art Sufficency of Dis...