On February 23, 2018, patent attorney and UNION-IP Honorary President Nils T.F. Schmid will be hosting a half-day Round Table entitled “Claim your indirect rights directly right – Cross border patent issues with essential elements”. The workshop will be held in English in the German Patent and Trade Mark Office at Zweibrückenstraße 12, 80331 Munich. Speakers announced so far include German Federal Court of Justice Judge Klaus Bacher and Sir Henry Carr from the UK Patents Court.

For more information, please contact Nils T.F. Schmid.

The UNION of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION_IP) is an independent nonprofit organisation for experts working in the field of intellectual property. It was founded in 1961 as the UNION of European Patent Attorneys. It is a Europe-wide organisation and provides a professional forum for IP experts.

On February 8-9, 2018, experts will meet in Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C. to discuss ‘Fair and Effective Incentives for New Uses of Established Drugs’

Among other aspects, panel member Dr. Ute Kilger will talk on the subject of ‘Examples of Success – The Lyrica Story in Denmark’ and explain the legal situation in Germany.

Dr. Karl-Heinz Metten will take up the role of moderator, leading the Judges’ Panel.

Further information about the conference is available here.

Dr. Carl-Richard Haarmann and Dr. Björn Bahlmann are speaking together at two conferences in India.

On January 20, 2018, they will be speaking on “Trademarks in the European Union; Key facts, Prosecution and Litigation” in Ahmedabad.

On January 22, 2018 they will be presenting an infringement action case study in Mumbai.

The German Lawyers’ Academy will be holding a seminar on “Software and property rights (patent- and copyright law)” on 01 December 2017 in Frankfurt am Main. Software patents are an integral part of everyday business. Computer-implemented inventions are found in almost all contemporary products used in our technology-oriented world of work. What’s more, software is one of few products to be protected by both patent law and copyright law. Prof. Dr. Christian Czychowski and Dr. Thomas Bittner will be holding a joint seminar covering this area and explaining legal prerequisites for protection, current developments in legal practice, the influence of open-source licensing models, and contractual issues. It is aimed at patent lawyers, general attorneys, as well as employees from industrial corporations and SMEs.

For more information and to register

On 30 November and 1 December 2017, a licensing seminar will be taking place in Munich organised by the Forum Institute for Management. Patent lawyer Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar and attorney Dr. Bertram Huber (IP*SEVA – Intellectual Property for Sustainable Energy Ventures, Backnang/Stuttgart), will both be leading this English-language seminar. The seminar will highlight numerous facets of licensing law and the individual phases of the licensing procedure. Current case examples will also be used to illustrate. To register and for further information.