Maiwald blog articles
EPO: Updating of the Examination Guidelines
Amended Guidelines for Examination at the European Patent Office came into force on March 1, 2021. The - from our poi...
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(Illegal) Blocking of a Seller Account by Amazon
In a decision dated 14 January 2021 in preliminary injunction proceedings (Case No. 37 O 32/21), the Munich I Regional Court, under threat of an administrative fine of up to E...
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German Act against Unfair Competition (amended version): Maintaining the free choice of legal venue (fliegender Gerichtsstand) – Failed attempt of the Düsseldorf Regional Court
As reported here (see post of 15 Sep 2020), ...
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Admissibility of Second Infringement Action Based on the Same Patent, but Different Infringing Act
The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH), on 3 November 2020, handed down its decision X ZR 85/19. Therein, it ruled that the admissibility of a second patent infring...
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EPO: Patent Applications for Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality – the Requirement of Sufficiency of Disclosure
The interaction of data and instructions is of fundamental importance in computer science. Not without reason, therefore, two decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European...
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Incompliant Conference Venue in the Pharmaceutical Industry
As of January 1, 2021, the Association for Voluntary Self-Monitoring of the Pharmaceutical Industry e. V. (FSA) has amended its Code of Conduct on the Interaction with Healthc...
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