News and Publications

"Late-filing during Appeal Proceedings Before the EPO" in Patents & Licensing, February 2013, Vol. 43, No. 1, 34-37

Author(s): Dr. M. Retzlaff, Dr. P. Klusmann In the February 2013 issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Marco Retzlaff and Dr. Peter Klusmann of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry group provide an update o...

"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...