In September 2022, Goldmedia GmbH presented a study on music streaming in Germany. The study was originally commissioned by GEMA (the German copyright collecting association). The turnover of music streaming services, also known as Digital Service Providers (DSP), continues to grow rapidly and the music industry hopes to be able...
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Start Date for the Unitary Patent Court
According to a number of informed sources, it is likely that the new Unified Patent Court Agreement will be ratified by Germany in the next month and the Court will start operating on 1 April 2023. This is not confirmed and we shall keep you up to date. The preparations...
Musikstreaming in Deutschland – Wie fair ist die Vergütung der Musikschaffenden?
Im Auftrag der GEMA hat die Goldmedia GmbH diesen Monat eine Studie zum Musikstreaming in Deutschland vorgelegt. Die Umsätze von Musik-Streamingdiensten wachsen weiterhin rasant an und die Musikindustrie erhofft sich durch diese Dienste, auch im digitalen Zeitalter noch profitabel agieren zu können. 45 % der Deutschen nutzen mittlerweile Dienste wie...
Classifying Spam – not patentable in Europe
The challenges in obtaining European patent protection for inventions in the field of artificial intelligence have been highlighted in a recent decision by the European Patent Office’s Board of Appeal in dealing with a European patent application Nr. 14725807.3 by Google for “classifying resources using a deep network”. The patent...
Disclosing an Invention
The German Federal Court of Justice recently provided guidance on the level of disclosure of the invention required for a patent to be valid. The case (number X ZR 16/20 from 29 March 2022 - headlined "Übertragungsleistungssteuerungsverfahren") concerned a mobile communications system for communication between a base station and a...
How does the EUIPO deal with virtual goods, non-fungible tokens and the metaverse?
Companies are offering a wide range of products and services relating to Web 3.0. Many of these goods and services are completely new and no legal framework is in place on how to classify and deal with these products and services. This also includes Intellectual Property Rights as national and...
Neural Networks are not Inventive
A recent German Patent Court decision No. 19 W (pat) 7/22 from 1 June 2022 reflected the practice of the European Patent Office in assessing the inventive step of an invention employing machine learning or artificial intelligence. The German Court decided that the mere inclusion of a reference to a...
Wie spitze ist die Marke Spezi?
Vor dem Landgericht München I wurde kürzlich darüber verhandelt, inwiefern die Paulaner-Brauerei Lizenzgebühren für den von ihr vertriebenen „Paulaner Spezi“ an die Brauerei Riegele in Augsburg leisten muss. Die Brauerei Riegele vertreibt selbst ein Cola-Mix-Getränk mit dem Namen Spezi und hat gegen Paulaner geklagt. Es ist unbestritten, dass die Brauerei...
Industrial Technologies 2022 Grenoble
This week three of our colleagues (Robert Harrison, Kilian Müller, and Eva Magd) took part in the EU-organised conference on Industrial Technologies 2022, held in Grenoble (France). The event is designed for research and technology organizations (RTOs), representatives of industrial companies as well as policymakers to discuss current trends, challenges...
Preparing Patent Specifications for Quantum Technologies
The requirements for a patent specification or description for an invention in the field of quantum technology are the same as for other patents. It is necessary to show that the claims of the granted patent define the subject matter for which patent protection is sought and the granted claims...