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In a ranking carried out by the peer review publication company Best Lawyers (About | Best Lawyers) on behalf of the leading German business newspaper Handelsblatt, WEICKMANN has achieved the highest category (Tier 1) in the regional ranking for Bavaria in the field of intellectual property law. The ranking is based on the classification of […]

Munich, June 6, 2024: Weickmann & Weickmann is proud to announce its recognition in the IAM Patent 1000 rankings in the category prosecution and nullity including four recommended individuals. „Weickmann is a very well-structured firm with its capabilities tailored to meet every client’s needs. The attorneys are efficient, results driven and meticulously focused on the […]

Munich, May 22, 2024: The Italian electronics group TCI Telecomunicazioni Italia S.r.L. has prevailed against Signify Holding B.V. in important patent nullity proceedings concerning a core technology for LED lighting systems before the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) (Ref.: X ZR 62/22).  In in its decision announced on May 16, 2024 immediately after the […]

For the contribution in a cross-border litigation concerning Bayer’s patent EP 2 305 255, our partner Hans Weickmann attended the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2024 ceremony yesterday evening in London to receive the award for the „Impact Case of the Year“. In Germany, the patent has been successfully defended before the German Federal Court of […]

Munich, August 18, 2023: WEICKMANN has again been included in the list of “Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2023” by the Financial Times. WEICKMANN was honored for its special expertise in the field of Chemistry & Pharmaceuticals. The Financial Times ranking is based on a study by Statista, for which more than 10,000 patent attorneys and […]

The European Patent Office has published its patent index for the year 2022 today. Despite the pandemic situation that was still ongoing in 2022, the number of EP filings increased by about 2.5%. Particularly in the technical fields of digital communication, electrical machinery/energy (in particular batteries) and biotechnology growth rates in the range of about […]

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) cited in its recently published decision G 2/21 that experimental evidence after filing an application can be used to prove a technical effect for patentability. Due to the possible effects, in particular for parties filing second medical use application, this decision has been awaited quite excitedly. The EBA dealt […]

Last November, the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) has decided that all oral proceedings before the Examining Divisions and Opposition Divisions (commonly referred to as “first instance proceedings”) are to be held by videoconference, unless a party requests an in-person hearing (European Patent Office (epo.org)). For such request, serious reasons must be provided, […]

Only weeks before the intended start of the Sunrise Period on 1 January 2023 the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has announced that the start of the Sunrise Period for the new UPC is postponed by two months to 1 March 2023, i.e. the Court itself will start its work on 1 June 2023. As indicated […]

A brand-new book from Newsdesk Global Communications with Novaro Publishing titled “Winning with IP: Managing intellectual property today” has been published today, 31 October 2022. Inspired by the High-growth Technology Business Initiative of the European Patent Office and Licensing Executives Society International, it is highlighting 15 routes to growth that IP may be creating. Among […]