News and Publications

"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 and Licensing", Dr. Matthias Kindler and Dr. Klemens Stratmann of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department summarize s...

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

Author(s): Dr. Th. Bausch In the June 2012 issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department takes a look at an interesting patent case both from an EP...

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

Author(s): M. Bälz, M. Dernauer, Chr. Heath, A. Petersen-Padberg (eds.) Together Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz (University of Frankfurt) and Dr. Christopher Heath (BoA, EPO), Dr. Marc Dernauer and Dr. Anj...

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

Author(s): Dr. Bernd Hansen, Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine (eds./Hrsg.) Based on the initiative of Dr. Bernd Hansen, former partner and head of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department, and Dr. Dirk S...

"The Thorny Path towards a Unitary European Patent

Update on the Latest Developments" in Patents and Licensing, June 2011, Vol. 41, No. 3, 25-29 Author(s): Dr. Th. Bausch In the June issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMA...

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) Author(s): Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Dr. Clemen...

Cloud Computing Inventions

Patentability and Infringement Under Current European/German Law" in Patents and Licensing, April 2011, Vol. 41, No. 2, 25-32 Author(s): Dr. Th. B. Koch, Dipl.-Ing. B. Hansis In the April issue o...

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...

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, 191-1...

"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 Author(s): Dr. Th. B. Koch, Dipl.-Ing. B. Hansis In the February issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Thomas B. Koch and Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Hansis of HOFFMANN EITLE's elec...