“Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law” with contribution from Dr Jan B. Krauss.

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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd has now published “Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law”, edited by Toshiko Takenaka, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Dr Jan B. Krauss contributes the section on “Equitable Doctrines in internal patent laws”. The book provides information and analysis on various legal comparative aspects of intellectual property law and procedure. It is aimed at IP specialists of all kinds, patent lawyers and lawyers specialising in IP. T. Takenaka (Editor), Verlag Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2013, 499 pages, ISBN 978 0 85793 436 9. It can be ordered here.

AIPPI Swiss Day 2013: Prof. Dr. J. B Nordemann explains the process of “Warning procedures in IP practice”.

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On 30 May 2013, the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), Switzerland, is holding its annual meeting as well as the AIPPI Swiss Day 2013 in Bern. The theme of this year’s meeting is “The warning process in IP practice: an international comparison”. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Jan Bernd Nordemann and the colleagues N. Boydell (Bird & Bird, London) and A Mondini (Schellenberg Wittmer, Zürich) will elucidate the topic from various different perspectives. The talks are aimed at familiarising an audience of experienced Swiss lawyers, in-house consultants, patent and trademark lawyers with the respective, different conditions and legal consequences of the formal warning in the concrete case of an infringement. Further information from AIPPI Switzerland.

Prof. Dr. H. Goddar with a series of lectures in the framework of the “Advanced Patent Law Institute”.

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The University of New Hampshire School of Law (Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property), Concord, NH, U.S.A., is running from 28 May to 8 June the two-week summer course “Advanced Patent Law Institute”. It is primarily aimed at patent lawyers, IP specialists and advanced students and will be held by several internationally known IP specialists. From 28 to 30 May 2013, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar together with Chief Judge Randall R. Rader, CAFC, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., and Attorney at Law Prof. Benjamin Hauptman, LHHB, Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., will conduct the series of lectures. The entire course is internationally oriented and focused on relevant, practice-related cases.

ASTP Annual Conference with talk by Prof. Dr. H. Goddar

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On 23 and 24 May 2013 the annual conference of the Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP) is to take place in Vienna under the motto “Best practices in transfer of science and technology”. On 23 May, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar will give a talk here in the Expert Panel “Hot topics in 2012/2013 – benchmark decisions, new initiatives in and around Technology Transfer“. The ASTP comprises more than 600 members in 41 countries. The aim of the association is to strengthen technology and know-how transfer in Europe. Further information

Dr. U. Manasse and M. Nentwig discuss “The A to Z of licence agreements” in their workshop.

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Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Enterprise Europe Network Bremen are holding a workshop on the 15th of May, 2013, on the topic of licence agreements. BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and patent attorney Dr. Uwe Manasse and partner and attorney Malte Nentwig will discuss “The A to Z of licence agreements” and provide an overview of their correct form. Further aspects of the workshop are the calculation and representation of licence fees and how to successfully negotiate licence agreements. Enterprise Europe Network Bremen is part of a European network which especially supports SMEs and research institutes with the development of international cooperation. The event takes place between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, Am Markt 13, 28195 Bremen. You can register via the Bremen Chamber of Commerce; Further information.

Dr. Schwab in WTR Daily on the decision “Continental Bulldog Club Deutschland”.

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BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and trademark law expert Dr. Florian Schwab reported via the online journal World Trademark Review Daily dated 02.05.2013 about the European Union Court (EuG) decision (T-383/10 Continental Bulldog Club Deutschland eV ./. HABM) dated 17 April 2013. This was mainly focused on the – recently negated – eligibility for registration of the brand CONTINENTAL. The Luxemburg judges saw in this a primarily descriptive, non-registerable content for the claimed services “The keeping and breeding of dogs” on the part of the German applicant. The full article can be viewed here.

Commemorative publication for Artur-Axel Wandtke with articles by BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners published.

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On the occasion of the 70th birthday of the Berlin Professor for civil law, industrial property and copyright law, Dr. Artur-Axel Wandtke, selected lawyers and legal scholars have written a commemorative publication in his honour. Six BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners contributed to this with various articles. The subjects covered were the following:

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Nordermann and Prof. Dr. Axel Nordemann: “The time duration of the granting of usage rights in the work relationship”

Dr. Christian Czychowski: “GTB examination of comprehensive usage rights clauses, the so-called assignment limited to purpose principle and the intellectual property rights remuneration law”

Prof. Dr. Jan B. Nordemann: “The termination of intellectual property contracts: automatic reversion of rights?”

Dr. Anke Nordemann-Schiffel: “No licence for unlimited investigation: The right to examine according to § 101a Intellectual Property Act (UrhG) in interim injunction proceedings“

Dr. Martin Schaefer: “Are remuneration rights, in the meaning of § 63a UrhG, transferred in the case of the overall transfer of company-related performance and service rights according to §§ 85 Sect. 2 p.1, § 87 Sect. 2 p. 1 or 94 Sect. 2 p.1 UrhG?“

The commemorative publication was published by Winfried Bullinger, Verlag Walter de Gruyter. 2013. ISBN 978-3-11-028348-4

China Intellectual Property Magazine with Part 2 of the article by Prof. Dr. Goddar and Dr. Haarmann published.

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In edition 3-4/2013 of the highly reputed Chinese journal China Intellectual Property Magazine, the second part of the article written by the two BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar and Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmannby has been published, as announced. In the article “Patent Litigation in Germany – An Introduction (II)”, the authors continue their explanation of on the way in which the German patent protection and litigation system is composed and what proceedings must be initiated in cases of infringement. The first part of the article was published in edition 1-2/2013 of the journal.