Euro Bank notes – turn around and see

Euro Bank notes – turn around and see

Always trouble around the Euro We all have colorful euro bills in our hands every day, but hand on heart: do you know what is depicted on these banknotes? I also had to look it up: on the front there are examples of architecture from different centuries and next to it...
Pitfalls for Patent Filing

Pitfalls for Patent Filing

Part I: When insufficient disclosure becomes a case (1) In this new section of our blog, we want to deal with the pitfalls that cause patent applications to fail again and again without need. The main focus will be on current decisions of the EPO and the German...
10 Years Nagoya Protocol

10 Years Nagoya Protocol

New White Paper from IP2 It took 12 years from the first declaration of intent on the protection of genetic resources and indigenous knowledge, the so-called „Rio Convention“ of 1992, until the Nagoya Protocol was adopted as a binding agreement under...
22 years: bäng-dänge-däng-däng

22 years: bäng-dänge-däng-däng

… this is how a short sequence from the piece „Metall auf Metall“ (metal on metal), which can be found on the album „Trans Europa Express“ by the German band Kraftwerk from 1977, can be described.  And it is precisely this beat, lasting...
What the expert knows…

What the expert knows…

In a recently published decision (1), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) once again addressed the issue of the role of the knowledge of a person skilled in the art in the assessment of inventive step. This provides an opportunity to examine this question...