The Fordham IP Conference will take place from 28th till 29th April 2011 in New York and is being hosted by the Fordham IP Institute for the 19th year. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar will participate in this event on various panels. Further information
In volume 15/2011 of the music magazine “musikmarkt” BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr. Martin Schaefer comments on a key problem for the music industry. Despite increasing legal online music sales, the overall problem is still not solved. In the case of unpermitted music offers which cannot be suppressed at the source, other methods must be employed to ensure they cannot be used, and this with the help of Internet access providers too. To what degree providers can be requested and obliged to help in such suppression is part of the discussion. It is technically feasible in several different ways. Within the scope of the debate about possibilities for cooperation by providers, the term “Netzsperre” or Internet blocking creates confusion with its continuing lack of precise definition. It can refer to the locking of individual user accounts through to blocking of entire domains. One thing is sure however according to Dr. Schaefer: “The political course set regarding the fundamental obligations of providers to participate in the prevention of legal infringements when they have ‘nothing to do with’ these infringements will be a decisive element in the further development of the content industries.
The International Technology Transfer Beijing Conference 2011 (AUTM Asia 2011) will take place from 14th till 16th April 2011 in Beijing, China. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar will chair the discussion, participate in the panel and give lectures. His lecture topics are as follows: ‘Recent Developments relating to the European Union Patent Protection – State of System after European Court of Justice (ECJ) Opinion on March 8th 2011’ and ‘Patent Protection of Software in Europe – Recent Case Law of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the German Federal Court of Justice (GFCJ)’.
On 12th April 2011 a seminar on the ‘Application, Protection and Warning of Enterprise Intellectual Property Rights’ will take place in Beijing. It will be jointly hosted by the patent office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO), the Patent Warning Consulting Center (PWCC) and the Patent Examination Consulting Center (PECC). BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar and Dr. Xia Pfaffenzeller will both give lectures pertaining to this topic at the seminar. Further information
On 11th April the ‘2011 Fu Jen International Academic Symposium on Patent Litigation and Competition Law’ will take place in Taipei. It will be hosted by the Fu Jen University. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar has been asked to give a lecture at the conference on ‘Recent Developments relating to the European Union (EU) Patent Protection – State of System after European Court of Justice (ECJ) Opinion of March 8, 2011’.
In the online edition of the World Trademark Review Daily (WTR Daily) from 29 March 2011, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Florian Schwab discusses the decision in Efemy’s Holding GmbH v. OHIM, Case T-50/09 of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Of interest to trade mark lawyers are the statements of the ECJ on the formal requirements for proof of genuine use in the opposition proceedings. The German company Efemy’s Holding GmbH responded to the objection of non-use, in keeping with the time limit, by stating that it would submit a fax consisting of 200 pages of usage documentation. The usage documentation was then received by the Office for Harmonisation after expiry of the time limit. Dr Schwab regularly comments in this newspaper.
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