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Dawn raids on suspected patent infringers: German Federal Supreme Court confirms patent owner's access to competitor's premises

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • March 19 2010

German courts are popular for litigating patents because they are known to be competent, fast, comparatively inexpensive, and generally patent-owner friendly

Reproduction of Opel logo on imitation toy cars does not infringe trade mark rights

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • Germany
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  • March 5 2010

The famous German car manufacturer Adam Opel GmbH, the owner of the Opel logo (which may be described as a circle with a thunderbolt), has been forced by the German Federal Supreme Court to accept that its logo may be fixed to toy cars without its consent

Patents in Europe 20102011

  • Grünecker
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 26 2010

A European patent designating Germany affords the same rights as a German patent

New rules put time limit on divisional applications

  • Cohausz & Florack
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  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • February 10 2010

On 1st April 2010 new Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention will enter into force

Substantial changes to the accounting principles of self-created intellectual property in Germany

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 3 2010

The credit crisis has led to substantial liquidity problems especially for medium-sized companies (not only) in Germany: their (almost traditionally) small equity base makes it difficult for them to gain access to fresh money, be it from banks following Basel II regulations, from the capital markets or from private investors

Federal Court of Justice: GEMA not competent to grant licenses for use of music in advertising

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • January 27 2010

The German Federal Court of Justice decided in a decision of June 10, 2009 (file no. I ZR 22606, published with full opinion only November 30, 2009), that the German collecting society for musical rights, GEMA, is currently not competent to license rights of its members regarding the use of musical works in advertising

‘Appropriate remuneration’ for translators under German copyright law German Federal Court of Justice decides in favor of translators

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany
  • -
  • January 27 2010

In five parallel matters decided by the German Federal Court of Justice October 7, 2009 and published by the court recently (case nos. I ZR 3807, I ZR 3907, I ZR 4007, I ZR 4107 and I ZR 23006), the court further interpreted the provisions on appropriate remuneration for licensors in German copyright law

Patent litigation: procedural changes in Munich

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 27 2010

In order to increase the attractiveness of Munich as a venue for patent infringement cases, the Patent Chambers of the Munich District Court recently launched a number of procedural changes

And the Academy Award for best IP venue goes to...

  • Cohausz & Florack
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 18 2010

Consider the following situation

Regional Court of Hamburg decides that online TV service Zattoo is illegal without right holders’ consent collecting societies’ and broadcasters’ consent is irrelevant

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • December 14 2009

In a dispute between film studios Warner and Universal against the German offering zattoo.de of online TV service Zattoo, the Regional Court Hamburg decided on 8 April 2009 (ref. no. 308 O 66008) that zattoo.de must not retransmit TV content without the consent of the original right holders