Dr Klaus-Dieter Langfinger hosts the VPP Autumn Academic Conference

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The Association of Industrial Property Experts (VPP) is to hold its annual conference on 20 and 21 October in Mainz this year. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and Member of the Presiding Committee of VPP, Dr Klaus-Dieter Langfinger, will host the discussion “New Developments at the European Patent Office” on 21 October. The subject will be presented by Dr Raimund Lutz, Vice President of the European Patent Office. Further information and registration for the VPP Autumn

Dr Czychowski with “Copyright Contract Law” for German Lawyers Academy

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The German Lawyers Academy (Deutsche Anwalt Akademie) will hold the 10th Specialist Legal Course “Copyright and Media Law”. As part of the course, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner, Dr Christian Czychowski, will hold a full-day workshop on 20 October 2011 on “Copyright Contract Law”.

Bavarian Patent Day 2011 with speech by Dr Klaus Dieter Langfinger.

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On 19 October, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Klaus Dieter Langfinger will give a speech on “Remuneration of Employees Inventions” at the Bavarian Patent Day 2011, organised by the Bavarian Patent Alliance. In his speech, he will present the legal framework and best practices. The event marks the third Bavarian Patent Day; it shows companies various options for the promotion and legal protection of innovation. The Bavarian Patent Alliance functions as the central event and marketing agency of a total of 28 Bavarian universities and colleges for applied science. Further information

Dr Martin Schaefer in “50 years GVL”.

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In autumn 2009, a symposium was held at the Institute for the Protection of Industrial Property Rights and Copyright of the Humboldt University, Berlin, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten (GVL), the collective body representing secondary exploitation rights of artists and manufacturers. The contributions made there have now been revised and updated in the publication “50 years of GVP – 50 years of collective assertion of copyright”, published by Tilo von Gerlach and Guide Evers. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Martin Schaefer is represented in the publication with his contribution “Sound Recordings and the GVL”. The work is published by Gruyter Verlag and can be ordered from this link.
ISBN 978-3-11-024887-6.

Guide: “Copyright in the Information Society” – with contribution from Dr Martin Schaefer.

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BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Martin Schaefer contributes the chapter on Germany in the recently published manual “Copyright in the Information Society: A Guide to National Implementation of the European Directive“. The manual explains the current state of implementation of the Copyright Directive 2011/29/EC in the various member states of the European Union. The book, by Edgar Elgar Publishing, was published by Brigitte Lindner and Ted Shapiro. The Guide can be purchased online for USD 235 from the publisher. ISBN 978 1 84980 010 5, 2011, 648 pages.