As of April 1, 2014 the German Patent Law has been amended. Summarizing the amendments it can be said that the German Patent Laws has been harmonized with regulations found in other European Patent...

The German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) has enabled electronic file inspection of patent and utility model applications, as well as granted patents and registered utility models, via the Internet...

Yesterday the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has published three decisions concerning the question of how well defined the medicinal product has to be in the claims of the patent for which an SPC...