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10.06.2025

In its decision of 6 June 2025, the Court of Appeal of the UPC ruled that also in PI-proceedings reimbursement

06.06.2025

Burden of proof and standard of proof for circumstances outside the scope of the patent claim In its today’s decision

24.04.2025

Today Juliane Messner joined Pinar Frank (COO Holloid), Manfred Rieger (Takeda) and Bernhard Nussbaumer (Shareholder & CBDO ACMIT) in front

24.04.2025

The Düsseldorf Local Chamber of the Unified Patent Court has classified the number of employees, annual turnover and annual balance

22.04.2025

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is considered a court of a Member State pursuant to Article 71a of the EU

15.04.2025

The Austrian Supreme Court confirms (18. 3. 2025, 4Ob106/24b): The band of the attacked heating sock has a different overall

06.04.2025

GEISTWERT partner Juliane Messner once again gave a lecture to more than 20 interested LL.M. candidates as part of the

07.03.2025

GEISTWERT partners Juliane Messner and Max Mosing gave a lecture on 7 March 2025 at Illuday 2025 in front of

15.01.2025

Juliane Messner and Max Mosing spoke at the ISACA (ISC)2 Conference 2025 on 15 January 2025 on the topic of

17.12.2024

Five years ago, the regulations for the protection of confidential know-how and trade secrets were amended for better protection. This

13.11.2024

The owner of a well known building known cannot prohibit other persons from using domains containing the name of the

17.09.2024

The drawing Robber Rathausplatz (city hall place) is an infringement of the copyright of the drawing Robber Hotzenplotz. The publisher,

03.07.2024

The take-aways: 1. right of prior use: national law applies 2. step-by-step action: obligation to render accounts in the infringement

31.01.2024

The jurisdiction of the UPC is a hot topic on damages, given that for the following 7 years the sunrise

30.01.2024

While structuring the UPCA, Member States agreed on the existence of parallel proceedings before the EPO and the UPC. Furthermore,

16.01.2024

1. A submission of evidence by the trade mark proprietor that the trade mark goods were first put on the

09.01.2024

It is usually said that the public character of a Court’s proceedings enforces the sense of justice and serves the

08.01.2024

Even from the early days of the UPC’s operation, it is obvious that the life sciences sector is taking the

06.01.2024

The UPC functions with 105 in total perfectly qualified judges, with great expertise in patents. 37 of them are legally

05.01.2024

For the time being, all the divisions of the UPC have been unanimous regarding interpretation of the RoP, but there

04.01.2024

June 1st of 2023 the UPC opened its doors for the first time, after long-lasting negotiations among the EU-members and

19.12.2023

Imagination and creation both were and still are what GEISTWERT is all about: At first, we started out at different

12.12.2023

After plenty of difficulties and years of disagreement, the UPC opened its doors on 1st of June 2023, and it

07.12.2023

When is time for litigation the patentee has a lot to take into account, but one of the most important

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