These days, patent courts across the world have to address the question of how to deal with AI-generated inventions.
The German Federal Court of Justice ("FCJ") has recently issued a landmark decision (decision of June...more
8/28/2024
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The effective protection of trade secrets is essential to the continued economic success of most undertakings. On 26 April 2019, after much debate and significant delays the new German Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets...more
US patents have some extraterritorial effect. A party can be liable for patent infringement if it supplies components of a patented invention to a foreign country to be assembled there. In WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical...more
4/10/2019
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WesternGeco LLC v Ion Geophysical Corporation
On November 1, 2018, a new German act implementing a “class action”-type procedure for consumers-related matters, the so-called model declaratory judgment action (Musterfeststel-lungsklage), came into force.
So far, the...more