European Union - November 29 2022
The European Commission's proposal to establish a European Health Data Space ("EHDS") aims to improve access by individuals to their health data…
Christoph J. Crützen, Ondrej Hajda
European Union - October 28 2022
Recently, the EU Unified Patent Court ("UPC") Preparatory Committee announced that the UPC is expected to become operational and start to receive…
Benjamin Beck, Christoph J. Crützen, Dr. Ulrich Worm
European Union, Germany - August 17 2021
On 7 August 2021, Germany formally ratified the Agreement on a Unified EU Patent Court ("UPC Agreement"). The ratification came after battles in…
Benjamin Beck, Christoph J. Crützen
Global - July 7 2021
As early as October 2, 2020, India and South Africa had submitted a proposal to the WTO to temporarily suspend patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines…
Christoph J. Crützen
Germany - November 5 2020
On 28 October 2020, the German Federal Government passed a bill to simplify and modernize the German patent law. The bill is expected to pass the…
Benjamin Beck