IP Summer Course June 29 until July 8, 2023, in Munich

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We are pleased to announce the event series “IP Summer Course – Obtaining, Enforcing and Evaluating Intellectual Property Rights in Europe” also for the year 2023. From June 29 to July 8, 2023, in-house counsel, patent and trade mark managers as well as IP experts are invited to Munich to learn about important aspects of obtaining, evaluating and licensing intellectual property in Europe as well as basic strategies of patent and trade secret protection in numerous seminars.

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The Patent Lawyer Magazine honors BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT with the title “Award Winning Law Firm 2023”

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The magazine ranks the firm among the top 10 German patent law firms.

“Award Winning Law Firm 2023” is the verdict of the jury of “The Patent Lawyer Magazine” on BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT this year. The trade magazine thus honors the firm with a higher tier title than in 2022 and again lists it among the ten best patent law firms in Germany.

The ranking will be published in 2023 in the May/June issue of the trade journal under the title “A comprehensive list of the most well-respected law firms from Europe and the UK”. Factors such as expertise, industry research, placement in other listings, feedback from readers and clients, and the assessment of the publisher’s international network are taken into account in selecting the winning firms.

“The Patent Lawyer Magazine” is published bimonthly in print as well as electronically and considers itself the only purely patent-oriented magazine on the international market. With a reach of 20,000 per issue, the publication says it is aimed at patent attorneys and lawyers as well as R&D executives and associations.

The ranking can be accessed online here.

Dr. Michael Hartig to speak at the Digital Health Conference in Riyadh on May 17, 2023

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“Innovation Protection in Healthcare: Patenting and More” is the title of Dr. Michael Hartig’s presentation on May 17, 2023, at the Digital Health Conference in Saudi Arabia.

The scope and provisions of patents, copyrights and other protection mechanisms, aspects and components of health tech innovations that need to be protected, the market and competition, and the risk of losing innovative ideas are the main topics BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and attorney Dr. Michael Hartig will talk about at the Digital Health Conference on May 17 at 4 p.m. local time.

The global conference on “Applied Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare” will take place on May 16 and 17, 2023, at the Fairmont Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Executives, academics, healthcare professionals and digital health stakeholders are invited to attend to learn and network. More than 50 speakers and over a thousand attendees from around the world are expected to attend.

The conference is supported by King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, the leading hospital in the Middle East and North Africa region.

For more information and the program, please visit the conference website.

The Legal 500 – EMEA 2023 honors BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT as Top Tier Law Firm

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Tier 1 ranking in the legal field “Patent Prosecution” as well as awards in three other categories

Shortly after the recognition on a national level, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is also rated outstanding in the current edition of the international ranking “The Legal 500 – Europe, Middle East & Africa”.

In addition to the highest possible distinction as a Tier 1 law firm in the area of “Patent Prosecution”, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is also honored with a ranking among the best law firms in the categories “Patent Litigation: Patent Lawyers”, “Patent Litigation: Solicitors” as well as “Trade Marks”.

Thirteen patent attorneys and solicitors were singled out for special mention:
Christian W. Applet, Dr. Mario Araujo, Christoph Angerhausen, Dr. Markus Engelhard, Felix Hermann, Dr. Daniel Herrmann, Dr. Jin Jeon and Dr. Karl-Heinz Metten (all for “Patent Prosecution”);
Christian W. Appelt, Dr. Dennis Kretschmann and Felix Hermann (all for “Patent Litigation: Patent Lawyers”);
Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann and Dr. Michael Rüberg (both for “Patent Litigation: Solicitors”);
Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt, Dr. Andreas Dustmann, Dr. Sebastian Engels, Silke Freund as well as Dr. Eckhard Ratjen (all for “Trade Marks”).

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is undisputedly one of the leading IP boutiques in Germany, not least due to its strong patent prosecution practice, the jury said, explaining the Tier 1 ranking in the field of “Patent Prosecution”. The mixed legal and patent law firm handles a large proportion of applications in the market and has many years of experience in managing and building up extensive IP portfolios. The above-average size of the team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law also enables the firm to provide advice in a wide range of technology sectors.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT also received great recognition in the categories “Patent Litigation: Patent Lawyers” and “Patent Litigation: Solicitors”. The team has many years of experience in nullity and infringement proceedings as well as in opposition and appeal proceedings and is experienced in handling national, European and international proceedings.

In the area of “Trade Marks”, the jury emphasized that BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT distinguishes itself both through a strong application practice – including the management of extensive trademark portfolios – and through advising companies on the enforcement and defense of their intellectual property rights before European as well as German authorities. In addition to the German offices, the team can also draw on the expertise of the offices in Alicante, Paris and Shanghai and is thus ideally positioned for cross-border matters.

The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) provides its readers with an annually updated assessment of leading law firms and lawyers in the countries of the EMEA region by impartial third parties. The EMEA guide provides an overview of 80 countries with more than 2,700 law firms and their ratings. There is no charge for participation. According to its own information, the expert team of The Legal 500 EMEA collects its evaluations and rankings purely on the basis of services rendered.

The current ranking for Germany is available online here.

“Digital patents are worth their weight in gold” – article by Dr. Felix Hermann and Dr. Daniel Herrmann in the magazine “Der Mittelstand”

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In the age of IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Industry 4.0, even medium-sized companies cannot avoid corresponding digital innovations. The protection of these innovations should not be neglected, is the advice of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partners and patent attorneys Felix Hermann (Munich) and Dr. Daniel Herrmann (Frankfurt a. Main) in their article for the magazine “Der Mittelstand”. After all, with digital solutions developed in-house, SME can also create new corporate values and growth for the company.

It is true that the patenting of software-based innovations – and these are mostly what is at issue here – is a challenge due to strict regulations for computer-implemented inventions in European and German patent law. However, if the software is used in the context of solving a technical task in a technical field, it can be protected by patents. In this case, the software makes a technical contribution and thus acquires the “technical character” necessary for patenting.

The complete article in German can be read in “Der Mittelstand”, issue 2/2023, on page 59. The magazine is available for download as a PDF here.

And gone is the trade­mark protection – Fabio Adinolfi with guest article on the cancella­tion of the word mark Flip-Flop in Marken­artikel 3/23

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That inactivity can cost trademark protection is shown by the latest example of the German trademark Flip-Flop. The supplier of the light and airy footwear has now had to pay for its inaction in defending its own trademark protection rights by losing them. The Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court has ruled that the word mark, which has been registered in the trademark register since 1997, is subject to cancellation (Decision dated 02.03.2022 – 4 U 63/21). The designation “flip-flop” does not convey any indication of origin with regard to a specific company, but rather designates a type of footwear per se in linguistic usage.

In his guest article in Markenartikel 3/23, Fabio Adinolfi, attorney at law at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, analyzes the factors that led to the cancellation of the registered word mark, describes how this could have been prevented, and provides tips for trademark owners who could face a similar fate.

Read more in the print edition of the German magazine Markenartikel 3/23, which can be ordered here.