“Full company name and geographical address are essential information in advertisements”. Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt on OLG Celle decision in new GRUR-Prax article.

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In issue 1/2022 of “GRUR-Prax – Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht / Praxis im Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht” BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and attorney-at-law Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt discusses a decision of the OLG Celle of 08.09.2021 (13 U 44/21, GRUR-RS 2021, 34492) on the mandatory indication of the full company name and
geographical address in advertisements.

The court held that the advertising entrepreneur may not omit essential information in an invitation to purchase in an advertisement solely because it considers other information to be more suitable for achieving its advertising purpose. Spatial restrictions of the means of communication are only to be assumed in the case of an invitation to purchase if it is objectively impossible to provide the essential information on the purchase. An invitation to purchase already exists in the case of information about the advertised product and the price, which is sufficient to enable a business decision to be made, without it actually having to be possible to purchase the product.

Dr. Böckenholt’s article in German is available in the printed edition of GRUR-Prax 1/2022 of January 12, 2022 on page 23 or for subscribers of Beck-Online here.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT appoints Lawyer Dr. Eckhard Ratjen as New Partner of the Firm

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Bremen, 18.01.2022 – At the beginning of the year, the mixed law firm BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is appointing Dr. Eckhard Ratjen as a new lawyer to the partnership of the firm. Dr. Ratjen will strengthen the law firm in the areas of trade mark, design, copyright and competition law.

Dr. Eckhard Ratjen advises his clients on all strategic issues of trademark, design, copyright and competition law. The management of international IP portfolios is a central focus of his advisory practice. Another focus of his work is the prosecution and defence against infringements of intellectual property rights and competition law. Dr Eckhard Ratjen’s clients include large national and international companies as well as medium-sized companies in the media and consumer goods industry and start-ups.

Since his admission to the bar in 2013, Dr. Eckhard Ratjen has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT at the Bremen office. As a further partner, he will complement the team there with the legal partners Malte Nentwig and Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt as well as the patent attorney partners Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Dr. Volker Scholz, Dr. Martin Erbacher and Dr. Uwe Manasse.

Dr. Eckhard Ratjen studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Kiel University), concentrating on the fields of intellectual property and copyright law. After completing his doctoral thesis on a copyright law topic and his legal traineeship with stations in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, among other places, he studied international trade mark and copyright law at King’s College in London from 2012 to 2013. There, he obtained a Master of Laws degree with a specialisation in intellectual property law.

About BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT

With around 90 specialised patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law, including 24 patent partners and 14 attorney partners, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in Europe. The firm has offices in the cities of Munich, Bremen, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Bielefeld, as well as in the three international locations Alicante, Paris and Shanghai. The wide variety of legal fields and topics guarantees success-oriented advice to clients across the firm’s offices.

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Dr. Dennis Kretschmann and Dr. Michael Rüberg on the European Unitary Patent in legaleraonline.com

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After almost 50 years of preparation, the European Unitary Patent could come into force in the close future. Optimistic voices assume an implementation in 2023 or already at the end of 2022.

But what do patent owners and managers of patent portfolios need to consider in advance? Will the future European Unitary Patent System only affect newly granted patents or also existing European (bundle) patents? Can patents invalidated in some European countries be maintained in other European countries? And are opt-out options available?

Patent attorney Dr. Dennis Kretschmann and attorney at law Dr. Michael Rüberg answer these and other questions in their article on the website of the Indian trade magazine Legal Era. In addition, they recommend that all patent owners and managers carefully review the patent portfolios of their companies in Europe and advise prompt strategic consideration of how best to benefit from the new system and which patents should be submitted for registration and which should not.
A short description of the historical development of the European Unitary Patent and the challenges on the way to its realization complete this informative article.

The article “The European Unitary Patent System is finally back on track and is now scheduled to arrive mid/end 2022 already” appeared on https://www.legaleraonline.com on December 20, 2021.