Publications

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) began its work just over a year ago: how has it gone so far and what does the future hold? In her article “Unified Patent Court: quo vadis” in the winter issue of European Biotechnology...

General principles of Customs law and connecting factors under trade mark law Every year, goods worth trillions of euros are imported into the European Union from third countries or brought into another third country via the EU. In that context,...

A changing landscape: German courts in the maelstrom of the UPC For decades, the German national courts, in particular Düsseldorf, Munich and Mannheim, have been the go-to places for patent disputes in Europe. The introduction of the Unified Patent Court...

Topic of the article: Aplidin® – a politically motivated scandal? Dr. Ute Kilger sheds light on the EMA failure and the political intervention in the Aplidin® case. In the autumn issue of the European Biotechnology Magazine, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT patent...

The European Patent Office’s method for determining inventive step In the July issue of the Japan Patent Attorney Association magazine, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT European Patent Attorney Dr. Makiko Maruyama describes the European Patent Office’s (EPO) approach to determining inventive step....

Protection of domains in the context of trademark, company trademark and title protection law. Domains are far more than a user-friendly variant of a numerical IP address, comparable to an individual telephone number. Their value has been recognized a long...

Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt discusses the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg of 14 March 2024, 5 U 132/22, GRUR-RS 2024, 6288 – Papierkrieg mit Airline, in the magazine of the publisher C.H.Beck. In the current issue 11/2024 of...

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT attorney at law Fabio Adinolfi explains in his article in GRUR-Prax 09/2024 how the sneakers worn by Rihanna in a social media post prevented Puma from obtaining Community design rights. The registration of a Community design (RCD)...

In the online magazine World Trademark Review Daily, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT partner and attorney at law Dr. Florian Schwab analyzes the decision of the General Court of the European Union of 17 April 2024 (Case T-76/23) on the infringement of...

In issue 07/2024 of “GRUR-Prax – Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, Praxis im Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht”, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT lawyer Dr. Julian Wernicke discusses a judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 7 February 2024 (T-792/22), which deals...