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HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 6/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this year's second issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin a series of articles on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) at the EPO. The se...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 3/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this first issue of Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly for 2022, we begin by concluding our two-part series on the Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal (RPBA) with...

China has joined the Hague System

On 5 February 2022, China declared its accession to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (“Hague System”). As of 5 May 2022, it wil...

Legal500 Germany Ranking

HOFFMANN EITLE ranks in top tier in the latest Legal500 Germany rankings We are very pleased that we have been ranked by the Legal500 Germany Ranking in Tier 1 for Prosecution, Tier 2 for Dispute...

The provisional application phase of the UPC Agreements has begun!

Another important step towards the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) – according to the EU Council’s Website Austria has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Protocol on the Provisio...

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...

Update on the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA)

As you may have heard, there is now a strong likelihood that the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA) will enter into force very soon, maybe even by the middle of 2022. Therefore, it may no...

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...

Best Lawyers Ranking: best lawyers and law firms in Germany 2021

We are proud of our colleagues who have been ranked by Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers for 2021: Thorsten Bausch Mike Gruber Niels Hölder Peter Klusmann Wedig von der Osten-Sacken Leo Polz Joa...

HOFFMANN EITLE congratulates thirteen newly qualified European Patent Attorneys

We are proud to announce that thirteen of our colleagues have passed all four papers of the 2021 European Qualifying Examination (EQE). Congratulations go to: Felix Briza (Mechanics, Munic...