On 22 March, CPA Global will hold a further interactive IP Leaders Luncheon Seminar on “Best Practices in IP Management: How to Utilize your Patent Portfolio to Compete in the Global Market”. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Heinz Goddar is invited as guest speaker and will speak on “Strategies to Obtain Patents in Europe in the wake of the European Union (EU) Unitary Patent System”. Asa Le Fustec, Head of Patent Business Development at CPA Global, will host the IP Luncheon which is aimed at Taipei’s IP community.

The Munich office of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is hosting an introductory seminar on patent law on the 18th of March 2013 which will be moderated by partner and patent attorney Nils T. F. Schmid. The following aspects will be examined:

“When is a patent useful? – Decision-making aids for SMEs” (Dr. A. Lucke)

“Patent application strategies / Defence Strategies” (Ch. W. Appelt)

“Requirements for patentability – Novelty and inventive steps” (Dr. M. Hartig)

“Employee inventions – efficient handling” (Dr. J. B. Krauss)

The seminar is primarily aimed at managing directors of SMEs as well as heads of R&D departments and authorized representatives. The event begins at 3 p.m. and ends around 6 p.m. The venue is The Charles Hotel in 80333 Munich. Participation is free. We would kindly ask you to reserve at n.schmid(at)boehmert.de or using the reply card below (jpg).

The Intellectual Property Institute of the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, is holding its annual conference on the 14th of March 2013. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr. Christian Czychowski has been invited to discuss the topic “Obligations to monitor the internet in the context of liability of the provider”. In this year’s event the focus will be on copyright law, patent and trademark law. Further information