HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 12/21

Dear Colleagues and Friends, This issue of Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly begins with a review of some of the legal provisions of the EPO's Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA), two years a...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 9/21

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin with an article that revisits the recurring issue of the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court, whose ent...

Neue Regel 19 EPC

Änderungen Erfindernennung beim Europäischen Patentamt Ab dem 1. April 2021 wird die Regel 19 EPÜ, die die Erfinderbenennung regelt, geändert. Vor allem die Absätze (3) und (4) werden gestrichen,...

Euro Law Conference - Asia 2021 (virtuelles Event)

MIP veranstaltet am 20. und 21. Januar 2021 die dritte, alle zwei Jahre stattfindende MIP Euro Law Conference. Wir freuen uns, dass HOFFMANN EITLE Kooperationspartner der Konferenz sein wird. Bei d...

Euro Law Conference - USA 2021 (virtuelles Event)

MIP veranstaltet 18. und 19. Januar 2021 die dritte, alle zwei Jahre stattfindende MIP Euro Law Conference. Wir freuen uns, dass Hoffmann Eitle Kooperationspartner der Konferenz sein wird. Bei dem...

Unwired Planet v Huawei

UK Supreme Court decision on FRAND Licensing for SEPs The UK Supreme Court has handed down a landmark judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei ([2020] UKSC 37) with significant repercussions in the fie...

How CJEU Santen is expected to shape landscape of patent extensions by SPCs

The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU’s) recently rendered Judgment in Santen v INPI (C-673/18) is expected to shape the landscape of patent extensions by Supplementary Protection Cert...

COVID-19 Patent Issues: FAQ

At HOFFMANN EITLE, we are currently receiving questions from clients about IP-related aspects arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. As reported in the press, many companies are working hard to make i...

Auswirkungen von Brexit auf Marken und eingetragene Designs der Europäischen Union

Stand Februar 2020 Zusammenfassung – Was ist bisher passiert? Am 31. Januar hat das Vereinigte Königreich formell die Europäische Union gemäß den Bedingungen des mit der Europäischen Union (EU) v...

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...