HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 9/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we continue with our series of articles addressing patenting computer-implemented inventions (CII) and artificial intell...

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...

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...

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...

Introducing: HOFFMANN EITLE QUARTERLY

HOFFMANN EITLE QUARTERLY will be published – as the name suggests – four times a year and will cover new case law and legislation, recent legal developments and points of practice. This first issue...

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...