Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
In a decision announced on December 5, 2006, the German Federal Patent Court (“Bundespatentgericht”), in a nullity action, has partially revoked the German patent DE 197 56 864 directed to neuronal or glial precursor or stem cells. The Court based…
The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, or “BGH”) ruled on a complex issue: employee’s inventions (German Employees’ Invention Act) in what is now known as the “Haftetikett”-decision. The BGH held that an employer can be liable for damages if an…
Yes. Actually that’s possible, at least in Germany, correction, at least in Berlin, oops, at least in the “Tiergarten” Municipal Court in Berlin. A tiergarten (“zoo”) it is. We earlier wrote about Sisvel’s attempts to bring Patent Wild West practices…
Sisvel, Europe’s most notorious patent troll, is known for its unscrupulous way of using (many feel: misusing) the criminal system in Italy, where they convinced Italian public prosecutors – not particularly known for their penchant for patent law – to…
Today Sisvel, Europe’s very own “patent troll”, was given a serious blow by a Berlin Court. Sisvel convinced German public prosecutors to provide some helping hands in pressing companies in the mp3 audio field to take licenses under patents,…