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First Aid
From left to right: David – Viola – Tamara – Uschi – Bernd – Simona – Martin – Dietmar – Bonnie - Vera Did you know that only 40% of the German population are able to provide first aid in an emergency? This is an astonishingly low figure when you compare it with our...
Magic Mushrooms
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...
Russian Warship…
...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...
Dr. Dietmar Pressner – New Kid on the Block
Introducing Dr. Dietmar Pressner We proudly announce that Dr. Dietmar Pressner has joined our IP2 team as a Senior Patent Advisor, responsible for chemical cases and IP strategy. Originally qualified as a PhD. in Chemistry completed at the Max Planck Institute for...
Nagoya Protocol 2.0
Additional New White Paper from IP2 concerning the Nagoya Protocol Our white paper "10 years of the Nagoya Protocol" from late 2023 explains the background, summarizes the current implementation into national law and provides an overview of the requirements that...
Penalty for the free-kick spray
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...
EPO’s start-up offensive – not a big hit
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...
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
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
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...
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 just 2 seconds, that is at...
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...
G 2/21: The Desaster failed
After almost two years of waiting, the Enlarged Board of Appeal published their long-awaited - some would say feared - decision G 2/21 on March 23, 2023 (1). In a nut shell: the disaster fails. But in detail: What is it about? Briefly, about the question of the...
Biting the Bullet
With around 482.2 billion U.S. dollars, Apple will be the world's most valuable brand by brand value in 2022, according to the Best Global Brands ranking. In the ranking compiled by Interbrand, Microsoft only came in second place with more than 278 billion U.S....
Sunrise Period for the Unitary Patent started
On March 1, 2023, the sunrise period began, the 3-month phase before the start of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court on June 1, 2023. From now on, it is possible to file opt-out requests and thus exclude the jurisdiction of the UPC for existing EP...
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Bernd Fabry is founder and CEO of IP2. He is a qualified German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney. He has more than 25 years company experience as Head of IP departments.
We are pleased that our Scientific Adviser, Dr. Martin Fabry from the University of Cambridge, will now report regularly on new developments in this exciting field.
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