Statements on current legal topics and issues - Archive

• EU Patent Reform: The peculiar silence of the German professional associations,

  Article on the “activities” of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and the Chamber of Patent Attorneys in relation to the “unitary patent package” (Published on 23/11/2015)

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• EU Patent Reform: Urgently needed: A legal basis for the opt-out fee,

  Article on implications from constitutional law as to the planned fee for an opt-out under Art. 83 UPCA (Published on 21/07/2015)

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• EU Patent Reform: “Cypriot compromise” compromised,

  Article on the measures used to push through the “unitary patent package” (Published on 20/04/2015)

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• EU Patent Reform: Advocate General’s Statements of Position – Superseded by reality,

  Article on the Opinion in matter C-146/13 and the implications of the most recent events at the EPO (Published on 15/01/2015)

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