News and Publications

"Patent Practice in Japan and Europe: Liber Amicorum for Guntram Rahn"

Author(s): Dr. Bernd Hansen, Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine (eds./Hrsg.) Based on the initiative of Dr. Bernd Hansen, former partner and head of HOFFMANN EITLE's chemistry department, and Dr. Dirk S...

"The Thorny Path towards a Unitary European Patent

Update on the Latest Developments" in Patents and Licensing, June 2011, Vol. 41, No. 3, 25-29 Author(s): Dr. Th. Bausch In the June issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Thorsten Bausch of HOFFMA...

License Agreements with German Companies

in: Legal Counseling on Intellectual Property License Agreements (Revised Edition), ed. Yamagami/Fujikawa (Tokyo 2011), p. 854-866 (in Japanese) Author(s): Dr. Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine, Dr. Clemen...

Cloud Computing Inventions

Patentability and Infringement Under Current European/German Law" in Patents and Licensing, April 2011, Vol. 41, No. 2, 25-32 Author(s): Dr. Th. B. Koch, Dipl.-Ing. B. Hansis In the April issue o...

Now available: 2nd edition of "Concise International and European Law"

Author: Dr. Anja Petersen-Padberg The second Edition of the "Concise International and European IP Law is now available. The book provides a commentary on the following international treaties and...

Lost in Translation? Not Anymore!

The Federal Court of Justice of Germany Has Rendered A Decision on Incomplete Translations of European Patents in the European Intellectual Property Review (eipr), March 2011, Vol. 33, No. 3, 191-1...

"Problems and Current Solutions of The German Dual Track System in View of a Series of Recent Federal Supreme Court Decision ('Crimping Tool I-IV')" in Patents & Licensing, February 2011

Vol. 41, No. 1, 35-38 Author(s): Dr. Th. B. Koch, Dipl.-Ing. B. Hansis In the February issue of "Patents and Licensing", Dr. Thomas B. Koch and Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Hansis of HOFFMANN EITLE's elec...

"Patent and Utility Model Laws" in "Compendium of Japanese Business Law", ed. Baum/Bälz (Cologne 2011), p. 837-963 (in German)

Author(s): Dr. G. Rahn, Dr. D. Schüßler-Langeheine, Dr. M. Dernauer, Dr. A. Petersen-Padberg, Dr. C. T. Steins, Dr. A. Dehner In this German-language compendium on Japanese business law (German ti...

Developments in German case

Author(s): M. Baccelli, Dr. M. G. Müller, Dr. Th. B. Koch Over the past two years, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) issued a series of decisions consolidating the previ...

"Standard Contract Terms" and "Consumer Protection"

in "Compendium of Japanese Business Law", ed. Baum/Bälz (Cologne 2011), p. 521-532 and p. 567-603 (in German) Author(s): Dr. Marc Dernauer, LL.M. In this German-language compendium on Japanese bu...