EU Patent Reform: The peculiar silence of the German professional associations, Article on the “activities” of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (“GRUR”) and the Chamber of Patent Attorneys in relation to the “unitary patent package” (Published on 23/11/2015) |

EU Patent Reform: The peculiar silence of the German professional associations,

Article on the “activities” of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and the Chamber of Patent Attorneys in relation to the “unitary patent package” (Published on 23/11/2015)

A further unusual characteristic of the legislative proceedings on the “unitary patent package” is the silence exerted by influential German professional associations in relation to it, in particular by the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and by Chamber of Patent Attorneys. On the one hand, this is characterized by the almost complete lack of official contributions to the discussion and, in general, statements on the legislative plans and, on the other, by the debarment of critical comments from the professional journals published by them. The following article should be food for thought not only for the members of said associations.

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Resources:

Link to Commission Document KOM(2000) 412 endgültig (German, PDF).
Link to Commission Document KOM(2007) 165 endgültig (German, PDF).
Link to Council Document 17229/09 (PDF).
Links to Council Documents 16113/09 und 16113/09 ADD1 (PDF).
Link to Commission Document KOM(2011) 215 (German, PDF).
Link to Commission Document KOM(2011) 216 (German, PDF).
Link to Council Document 16351/12 nebst CORR1 (PDF).
Link to the statement of GRUR e.V. of 13/06/2006 zum Fragebogen der Europäischen Kommission zur künftigen Patentpolitik (German, PDF).
Link to the statement of GRUR e.V. of 29/02/2008 on the proposals of the EU Council Presidency for the creation of a EU patent jurisdiction (German, PDF).
Link to the report on the adoption of the “patent package” on 11/12/2012 at www.grur.org (German).
Link to the article Tilmann, “Endlich: Entscheidungen zum Einheitspatent und zum Europäischen Patentgericht” (“Finally: Decisions on the unitary patent and European Patent Court”) at www.grur.org (German, PDF).
Link to the article „Einheitspatent schafft Chancengleichheit“ („Unitary patent creates equal opportunities“) in „VDI Nachrichten“ of 04/01/2013 (German, PDF).
Link to the statement of GRUR e.V. of 30/09/2013 to the Preliminary set of Provisions for the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (PDF).
Link to the statement of GRUR e.V. of 30/07/2015 “Public Consultation on the Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs” (PDF).
Link to GRUR Management Report 2013/2014 (German, PDF).
List of statements by the Chamber of Patent Attorneys (PAK) between 9/1998 and 3/2011 (German, PDF).
Link to PAK position paper of 06/03/2012 on the future European patent jurisdiction, competence and seat of the Central Division (German, PDF).
Link to PAK statement of 09/08/2013 on the draft implementing regulation on unitary patent protection (German, PDF).
Link to PAK statement of 30/08/2013 on the “Preliminary set of Provisions for the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court” (PDF).
Link to PAK statement of 20/03/2015 on the proposals for the level of renewal fees for European patents with unitary effect (PDF).
Link to the article Jaeger, “All back to square one? – An assessment of the latest proposals for a patent and court for the internal market and possible alternatives” (PDF).
Link to the article Jaeger, “What’s in the Unitary Patent Package?” (PDF).
Link to the article Ullrich, “Select from within the system: The European patent with unitary effect” (PDF).
Link to the article Hilty/Jaeger/Lamping/Ullrich, “The Unitary Patent Package: Twelve Reasons for Concern” (PDF).
Correspondence with the President/Secretary General of GRUR (English [translation] or German [original], PDF).
Correspondence with the Board of the Chamber of Patent Attorneys (English [translation] or German [original], PDF).
Link to PAK statement on the Fourth Proposal for a European Patent Litigation Protocol of 08/07/2002 (German).
Link to PAK statement on the Third Proposal for a European Patent Litigation Protocol (EPLP) of 15/04/2002 (German).
Link to PAK statement on the First proposal for an EPLP (European Patent Litigation Protocol) of 09/05/2001 (German).
Link to the PAK position paper “Vertretungsbefugnis der Patentanwälte in Gemeinschaftspatent-Streitigkeiten” (“Right of representation of patent attorneys in Community patent disputes”) of 08/08/2003 (German, PDF).

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