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Patent Law: A Handbook

Edited by: Maximilian Haedicke, Henrik Timmann

ISBN13: 9781849464925

Published: December 2013

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

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This book offers an in-depth examination of the European patent law regime. Aimed at practising lawyers it provides a one-stop reference for everything that they need to understand the rapidly developing European law on this subject.

Subjects:: Intellectual Property Law

Contents:: 1. Introduction; A. Ambit, meaning, goals and means of patent law; B. Historic development; C. Relevant sources of law; D. Patent law and neighbouring legal fields; E. Patent law and competition law; F. Patent law and the European Single Market; 2. Inventions and their amenability to patent protection; A. The "Technical Invention" criterion; B. Catalogue of exclusions (Section.; 1 para.; 3-4 PatG resp. Art.; 52 para.; 2-3 EPC); C. The "industrial applicability" criterion; D. Obstacles to protection; E. Differentiation from the state of the art; F. Realisability and sufficiency of disclosure for realisability; 3. Ownership; A. Inventor and inventor right; B. Multiple owners; C. Recovery of inventors' rights (rei vindicatio); 4. Patent transfer and licensing; A. Common foundations of patent transfer and licensing; B. Full transfer of patents; C. Licenses; 5. Grant and rejection of patents; A. The proceedings for grant; B. Opposition proceedings; C. Appeal proceedings; D. Nullity proceedings; E. Limitation and revocation proceedings; F. Lapse without retroactive effect; 6. Interpretation and scope of protection of patents; A. Basic outline; B. The importance of the patent specification as a source for interpretation; C. The importance of sources outside the patent specification; D. Extension of the scope of protection to equivalents; 7. Chemical and biological inventions; A. Introduction and development; B. Definitions, exceptions and special cases regarding biological inventions; C. Prerequisites for patent registration; D. Scope of protection and types of claims; E. Effects of the patent; 8. Use of a patent; A. General; B. Direct use of a patent; C. Indirect use of a patent; D. Liability and imputation; 9. Defences; A. Permitted acts under Section 11 PatG; B. Exhaustion; C. Prior use law according to Section 12 PatG; D. Defence of invalidity; E. Fraudulant abstraction; F. Objection of a compulsory licence under antitrust law; G. Forfeiture of rights; 10. Legal consequences of patent infringement; A. Creditors and debtors of claims for infringement; B. Injunctive relief; C. Claim for damages; D. Claims for unjust enrichment and claims for compensation; E. Claims for information and accounts; F. Claim for recall and destruction; G. Statute of limitation for the claims; H. Publication of a judgment; 11. European Patent and European Patent Court; I. Current position; II. The European Patent with unitary effect; 12. Other proceedings and claims in patent cases; A. Criminal patent law; B. Border seizure proceedings; C. Allegation of entitlement and misleading advertising; D. Claims arising from unjustified warnings of property right infringement; 13. The law of utility models; A. General; B. Protection: Subject-matter and prerequisites; C. Inventor's rights and invention ownership; D. Formation and expiration of the utility model; E. Content and scope of protection of the utility model; F. Utility models in business transactions; G. Consequences of the utility model infringement under civil law; H. Consequences of the utility model infringement under criminal law; I. Utility model infringement action; II. Pre-trial measures: Gathering evidence and warning; J. Unjustly claiming a utility model; 14. The supplementary protection certificate; A. General, purpose, history and legal character of the certificate; B. Substantive granting prerequisites; C. Calculation of term; D. Subject matter and scope of protection; E. Rights, limitations and obligations; F. Grant procedure; G. Expiry, invalidity and revocation; H. Remedies