Trump’s “Big Beautiful Greenland Punitive Taxation Act” – so to speak Due to insubordinate behaviour and as a disciplinary measure, US President Donald Trump has announced that he will impose additional tariffs of initially (a further) 10% on a number of EU and NATO...

BAYER starts law suit against COVID vaccine producers in the US The new year begins with significant media coverage for Bayer: various local and national print media as well as television report that the Leverkusen-based company has filed lawsuits against...

BAYER starts law suit against COVID vaccine producers in the US The new year begins with significant media coverage for Bayer: various local and national print media as well as television report that the Leverkusen-based company has filed lawsuits against...

In the US, autonomous cabs are already an integral part of transportation, especially in cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Waymo, an Alphabet Group company, is the leading provider in this area. Waymo currently has 1,500 robotaxis on the road and,...

 Are mushrooms excluded from patent protection? If a green-blue film of mold covers bread, fruit or other foodstuffs, the food is considered hazardous to health and ends up in the garbage can. In biotechnology however, molds, especially of the genus Aspergillus, are...

...Go F**k yourself! … was the final communication made on 24 February, the first day of the 2022 Snake Island campaign, by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov to the Russian missile cruiser Moskva just before the ship opened fire on Sevastopol. The phrase went viral...

In 2013, international soccer was enriched by a special curiosity: referees suddenly sprayed lines on the pitch with a kind of shaving foam to determine the correct distance of the kicker at a free kick. FIFA is said to have once promised Heine Vilarinho-Diaz (1), the...

It is a truism that newly founded, highly innovative companies are particularly dependent on the protection of their intellectual property, but often lack the budget to ensure this in a comprehensive manner. This is doubly fatal, as IP is usually the only asset that...

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...

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 international...

... 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 just 2 seconds, that is at...