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There is no unified European court for patent infringement and revocation disputes concerning European patents validated in contracting states. Typically, each national part of a European patent is litigated separately. The Unitary Patent package aims to establish a single patent for up to 26 EU member states and a Unified Patent Court to handle infringement and revocation disputes for both Unitary and classical European patents. The Brussels Regime outlines the jurisdiction rules for national courts in civil and commercial matters, including patents. The 2014 update to the Brussels Ia Regulation incorporated the Unified Patent Court as a common court for contracting member states. This manual explains the Brussels Ia Regulation and the Lugano Convention as they relate to patent disputes, detailing the jurisdictional options available to plaintiffs. It considers relevant case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Developed by the author alongside expert European patent judges and lawyers, the manual employs a blend of theory, charts, and scenarios to clarify the jurisdictional landscape of the European patent litigation system.

Intellectual property law has been harmonized by EU law to a considerable extent. At the same time intellectual property rights have converged. The academic discussion has not kept pace with this development. European intellectual property law is often seen through the spectacles of national law; pan-European discussions about issues of Community law seem to be the exception rather than the rule. The contributors to this volume investigate if and to what extent European rules and principles applicable to all intellectual property rights already exist or whether they can be found on the basis of the acquis communautaire and comparative law. In particular, they discuss the merits and the methodology of common principles before turning to several areas of substantive intellectual property law such as grounds of protection, secondary liability and exceptions, to enforcement and finally to the relationship between intellectual property and neighbouring areas of EU law.

Dieser Band enthält die Vorträge, die auf dem Eröffnungssymposium des Bayreuther DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Geistiges Eigentum und Gemeinfreiheit“ im Mai 2006 gehalten wurden. Die Autoren befassen sich aus verfassungsrechtlicher, ökonomischer und zivilrechtlicher Perspektive mit dem Spannungsverhältnis, das zwischen dem Interesse von Erfindern und Kreativen am effektiven Schutz ihres geistigen Eigentums und den Zugangsinteressen der Allgemeinheit besteht. Nach einer Einführung, die wesentliche Gedanken des Symposiums zusammenfasst und in die aktuelle Diskussion einordnet, werden ökonomische und verfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen untersucht. Überlegt wird, ob das heutige Urheberrechtssystem noch zeitgemäß ist und welche Perspektiven sich im europäischen Patentrecht abzeichnen. Das Verhältnis zwischen Marken- und Lauterkeitsrecht bestimmen zwei Beiträge mit unterschiedlichen Akzenten. Inwieweit das internationale Recht des geistigen Eigentums einer Ergänzung durch ein internationales Kartellrecht bedarf, wird abschließend erörtert.

This book carefully analyzes the comparative advertising directive, giving background both to the regulation of comparative advertising in the United Kingdom and Germany and to the passing of the directive. It will bring a reader the latest in thinking on comparative advertising from Germany, where the directive has been the subject of recent debate. The book also has four appendices in which UK, German and European material is given (all in English). The directive applies to any advertisement (or indeed any representation of any kind made to promote goods or services) that explicitly or implicitly identifies a competitor. It therefore has the potential to regulate such claims as the best bookseller in Oxford and could have a dramatic effect on UK advertising practice. It is an important first step in the Commission's program of unfair competition harmonization.