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The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court recently ruled that a declaration to cease and desist pre-formulated by a law firm can be classified as a general terms and conditions (judgment of...
The European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have jointly prepared a study entitled“Linking patents, trademarks and startup financing“. The aim was to gain an insight...
On this occasion, we would like to draw your attention to a warning issued by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) on June 26, 2023, in which a...
After decades of development, the “sunrise period” of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) started on March 1, 2023, followed by the entry into force of the UPCA on June...
In practice, contractual penalties are a common means of sanctioning breaches of cease-and-desist declarations. The declaration to cease and desist is “subject to penalty” precisely because a contractual penalty is...