Together with the consultancy Accuracy Deutschland and the Best Excellence Initiative Rhein-Main of the F.A.Z Institute, the Frankfurt office of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT will hold a seminar on the “Arrangement of R&D Collaboration Agreements” on 21 February 2013. It provides insight into the arrangement of such collaboration agreements between companies and universities as well as with publicly subsidised projects. It also explains the monetary valuation and protection of access to contributed and jointly created intangible assets. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners and patent lawyers Dr Klaus Dieter Langfinger and Dr Karl-Heinz Metten and Stefan Herrmann and Dr Ekaterina Lohwasser from the consultancy Accurancy Deutschland will give speeches on the issue.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof Axel Nordemann has been invited to speak on 7 February 2013 at the Jena Lectures on the Protection of Intellectual Property organised by the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität of Jena and the German Patent and Trademark Office, Jena Office. The subject of his speech will be: “Recent developments on the term copyright-protected work and its consequences in the field of Applied Art.” The speech will focus on current case law from the ECJ and the German Federal Supreme Court on the term as defined in § 2 UrhG. Venue: German Patent and Trademark Office, Jena.