As part of the webinar series “Trademark Law à la carte”, Dr. Sebastian Engels will give a lecture on the topic “From the Right to Information to the Duty to Inform? The extended information claims of authors according to the DSM Directive”.

The series “Trademark Law à la carte” follows the 10-year tradition of our brand seminars in autumn, which we are organizing this year purely virtually out of concern for the health of our participants.

The webinar will be held in German. Please register here.

As part of the webinar series “Markenrecht à la carte”, Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt will speak on 28 October 2020 from 12.30 to 13.15 pm on the topic “Why should brands be fun? Limits of parody and comparative advertising”.

The series “Trademark Law à la carte” follows the 10-year tradition of our brand seminars in autumn, which we are organizing this year purely virtually out of concern for the health of our participants.

The webinar will be held in German. Please register here.

Within the framework of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Federal Government organises numerous conferences and events, mostly of a virtual nature, including a conference entitled “Data Economy, AI and Intellectual Property” organised by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV).

The event, which will take place exclusively online on 8 September 2020, is intended to create the basis for a status quo assessment from an intellectual property perspective and to address the question of what challenges will arise now and in the future from the use of artificial intelligence for the data economy and for intellectual property rights.

Following the conference, two workshops on copyright are planned, also online. One of these will be led and moderated by BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT attorney Dr. Martin Schaefer together with Prof. Dr. Ing. Nobert Gronau. The subject of the workshop entitled “Copyright Infrastructure” will include the question of how metadata on protected content can be improved in the networked and digitised world.

Participation in the online conference is free of charge, but places are limited.

Further information on the BMJV event and access to the livestream can be found here!

The well-established exchange program for the next generation of leading patent infringement attorneys of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA), the “Global Fellows Series”, will take place again in 2020, from March 2 to 7 at the Haus der Bayerischen Wirtschaft in Munich. Numerous speakers from the business community as well as from the judiciary and the legal profession are expected to attend.

Participants can look forward to a number of highlights: There will be a mock trial under the direction of Federal Supreme Court Judge Dr Klaus Grabinski, as well as visits of the EPO, DPMA and BPatG. In addition, participation in a patent infringement hearing before the LG Munich is planned.

As co-chair of the Global Fellows Committee of the FCBA, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and attorney Dr. Michael Rüberg will once again lead the event in Germany this year, together with Dr. Martin Meggle-Freund, MFG Patent Anwälte.

Further information on the forum and the event can be found here.

How many video platforms can the German market handle? Can advertising-financed business models become serious competition for subscription models? Is a battle breaking out among the platforms or will viewers be able to selectively combine offers from different platforms in the future? These questions will be addressed at the Producer’s Brunch on 24.02.2020 on the occasion of the 70th International Film Festival in Berlin. Details of the event can be found here.

Link to registration.