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Newsletter 5/2018 Edition

- Federal Court of Justice (I ZR 226/14): On the Duty of Care When Invoking the Repair Clause in Design Law
- Federal Court of Justice Confirms (X ZR 92/16): Infringement and Nullity Courts May Arrive at Different Interpretations

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Newsletter 4/2018 Edition

- Decision 2 BvR 1961/09 from Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court: A Harbinger for Coming Patent-Law Decisions?
- Decision J 4/17: When should a proceeding before the EPO be resumed once it has been suspended by an action for replevin?

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Newsletter 3/2018 Edition

- Great Britain ratifies unitary patent agreement
- G1/15 in practice – decision T 282/12

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Newsletter 2/2018 Edition

- Legal certainty regarding Great Britain on the horizon for holders of EU IP rights
- When is replacement remanufacture? Federal Court of Justice "Trommeleinheit" [drum unit] case

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Newsletter 1/2018 Edition

- Unitary Patent system makes it through Parliament in United Kingdom
- When is a claim of priority effective before the EPO?

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Newsletter 7/2017 Edition

- G1/16 published – G1/03 is upheld
- Stay of infringement proceeding due to manifest prior use

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Newsletter 6/2017 Edition

- CJEU strengthens rights of trade mark holders in the luxury sector
- Federal Court of Justice makes “forum shopping” more difficult for EU trade marks

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Newsletter 5/2017 Edition

- EPO makes it more difficult to submit data to support inventive step
- Ferrari loses the “Testarossa“ trade mark at first instance

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Newsletter 4/2017 Edition

- News of ratification of the Unitary Patent System
- Product recall obligation for overseas firms too (?) - BGH “Abdichtsystem“

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Newsletter 3/2017 Edition