On 16 May 2016, the Federal Ministry for the Economy will present the 3rd revised editions of “Sample Agreements for Research and Development Cooperation between Industry and Academic Institutions”.  BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT and Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar as head of the working group by the same name mediated these sample agreements for the Federal Ministry and also provided consultancy services to the Federal Chancellery in this regard.
Prof Goddar will introduce the concluding event and presentation of the revised 3rd edition of the Sample Agreements at the Federal Ministry (16 May 2017, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the BMWI Berlin). Prof. Dr. Christian Czychowski will present the findings from the working group and their results. Speechs by Dr Stückradt, Chancellor of the University of Cologne, Mr von Wendland from the EU Commission as well as from representatives from Bayer AG and from Robert Bosch GmbH, as well as from Fraunhofer Institute will illuminate the Sample Agreements. In a concluding discussion round, the significance and practice of R&D cooperations in the Federal Republic of Germany will be discussed. Representatives from academia (universities and non-university research facilities) as well as from industry will be present. Registration required.

On 26 April 2017, the Munich office of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT will hold its trusted “Patent Law Foundation Seminar” hosted by patent lawyer Nils T. F. Schmid. The following aspects will be covered:

• “When does a patent make sense? – Decision-making aids for SMEs” (Dr. A. Lucke).
• “Patent registration strategies / defence strategies” (Ch. W. Appelt)
• “Patent Requirements – Novelty and Innovative Activity” (Dr. M. Hartig)
• “Employee Inventions – efficient dealing” (Dr. J. B. Krauß)

The seminar is geared in particular towards managing directors of SMEs, as well as directors of R&D departments and general proxies.
The seminar begins at 3 p.m. and ends at 6 p.m. with subsequent get-together. The event will be held at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT’s Munich office, Pettenkoferstrasse 22, 80336 Munich Participation is free of charge. Registration requested via the Munich office or directly with Nils T.F. Schmid (mittelstand(at)boehmert.de).

The Erich Pommer Institute (EPI) will hold a seminar on 26 March 2017 entitled “Copyright Contract Law 2017 – New regulations for the film industry” in Berlin. The background to the event is the copyright contract law reform, which entered into force on 1 March 2017. This reform brings with it various changes for copyright holders and, in particular, for collecting companies operating in the film industry. The focus of the seminar is the need to make changes in the film industry in light of the reform and the options for those changes. The two BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT lawyers Dr. Julian Waiblinger and Dr. Stanislaus Jaworski will focus in the seminar in particular on the following:

• New information requirements – what the accounts department must know
• Exclusive rights of use – exploitation by competitor after ten years?
• Re-filming – The end of the unlimited grant of exclusive rights for producers?

The seminar will take place from 16:00 to 19:00 in the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin.

To mark the 67th Berlinale, media.connect brandenburg, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, the Media Institute Berlin Brandenburg (mabb) and the Permanent Representative of the Federal State of Brandenburg will hold the sixth Producer Brunch on 13 February 2017. This year, the central theme will be “Portability for online services and cross-border radio broadcasts – who benefits? And who doesn’t? Attending the event will be BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT Partner Prof. Dr. Jan B. Nordemann who will give the keynote speech. The background here is provided by draft EU regulations for the “cross-border transmission of online content services” and “certain online broadcasts by radio institutions and the dissemination of television and radio programmes”, which have met with a range of criticism. The first draft only affects contents in national or territorially limited online services. The second affects the transmission in proprietary online networks whereby transmission on the internet is expressly excluded. Both drafts have been criticised by one camp as too timid and narrow and from the other as too broad. The discussion is intended to show who benefits from the proposals and who will experience them as a limitation. The panel will be hosted by BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner Olaf Wolters. Appearing on the panel will be:

• Christoph Bellmer, eXaring AG
• Maria Martin-Prat, European Commission
• Lutz Reulecke, Sky Deutschland
• Christian Sommer, Motion Picture Association (MPA)
• Dr Anja Zimmer, Media Institute Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb)

The event begins at 10 a.m. in the Kurfürstensaal at the Permanent Representative of Brandenburg in Berlin. Registration at