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19 January 2022
On 18 January 2022, the ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA) by the Austrian Parliament was notified to the Council of...
Hogan Lovells Publications
29 September 2020
Trade secrets are fast becoming a crucial IP asset, and that’s good news for chemical companies – whose competitive advantage regularly comes not only from patented materials or ...
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19 May 2020
The Federal Court of Justice revoked the decision of the Dusseldorf appeals court which originally had allowed Haier's FRAND defence. The written grounds of the decision have not been...
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20 March 2020
On Friday, 20 March 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) published its decision on the Constitutional Complaint filed against the national German Act of Approval to the ...
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20 March 2020
Today, on 20 March 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court in its decision on the Unified Patent Court ruled on the constitutional complaint against the law approving the agreement of 19...
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01 January 2020
When we first conceived this article series earlier in the year, the chemicals industry was already contending with numerous economic headwinds, among them a burgeoning automotive...
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02 July 2018
29 June 2018, the Hungarian Constitutional Court published its decision relating to the ratification of the UPC Agreement ("UPCA").
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09 March 2017
Today, the European Patent Package passed another milestone towards coming into effect.
Insights and Analysis
11 January 2016
The new Unified Patent Court will have exclusive competence to decide, inter alia, on the infringement and validity of EP's and Unitary Patents. We look at how the draft Agreement on a...
