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I/2023

A Laptop is not a Digital Book

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III/2022

Update UPC I – Start of Sunrise Period on 1 March 2023

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II/2022

Record filings at EPO – Four millionth patent application deals with artificial intelligence (AI)

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I/2022

The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) are really coming!

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III/2021

Green Light for the European Unitary Patent

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II/2021

Artificial Intelligence and Patent Protection

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I/2021

Patents in times of COVID-19 pandemic: What are patents on vaccines worth in times of a pandemic?

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II/2020

Federal Supreme Court ruled: Ritter Sport remains the only square chocolate

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I/2020

German Federal Constitutional Court “topples” the Unified Patent Court

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II/2019

Trademark infringement also applies in relation to links to goods and services offered by third-party providers

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I/2019

On-sale bar in the USA – a new trap for patent proprietors?

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III/2018

New EPO Examination Guidelines encompass artificial intelligence and machine learning

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II/2018

Complaint lodged with the Constitutional Court against the obligation to recall

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I/2018

The Federal Court of Justice’s “Digitales Buch” judgment

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III/2017

Quality, Chocolate, Squared =3D-Trademark!

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II/2017

The German Federal Constitutional Court halts the promulgation of the Unified Patent Court legislation

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I/2017

EPO – Validation agreement with Cambodia

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IV/2016

Green Light for the Unitary Patent?

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III/2016

Brexit – What now?

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II/2016

Unrest at the European Patent Office

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I/2016

European Patent Office

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III/2015

Can there really be only one “Goldbear”? The German Federal Court of Justice has reached a decision

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II/2015

Reform of Community trademarklaw

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Extra 2015

Update on the unitary patent

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I/2015

Validation of European Patents in Morocco

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II/2014

GPTO sees steady rise in patent and trade mark applications

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I/2014

Domain law - Trademark Clearinghouse

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III/2013

GPTO goes Online!

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II/2013

Judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice “Route planning”

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I/2013

The EU patent with unitary effect is within reach

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III/2012

Charity initiative

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II/2012

Changes in U.S. patent law

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I/2012

Increase in the European Patent Office Fees

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I/2011

Extension to the deadline under Rule 161 EPC

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Ali Yesil

M. Sc. , DE Patent Attorney

Gabriela Braun

Office Management

Antje Freese

Attorney , Specialized in Intellectual Property Rights

Markus Germann

Dipl.-Phys. , EP Patent Attorney

Doris Hickethier

Head of Office Management

Alexander Leiteritz

Attorney , Head of Trademark Department

Katrin Schäfer

Accounting Manager

Regina Wenningmann

Human Resources

Christoph Binz

Dr. rer. nat. , M. Sc. , Candidate

Johanna Gagel

Doctor of Engineering , M. Sc. , Candidate

Handelsblatt 2022

Once again in 2022 the business newspaper Handelsblatt names crown WITTEWELLER ‘Germany’s best lawyers’ in the field of industrial property rights. WITTEWELLER lawyers Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck and Mark Wegener were singled out for particular praise by the Handelsblatt.

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JUVE 2022

„Patent Filing – Germany 2022“
WITTEWELLER was once again hailed as one of the leading patent law firms in the category ‘Patent Filing Germany’ by specialist publisher JUVE in 2022.

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Financial Times 2022

Business magazine the Financial Times ranks WITTEWELLER as one of ‘Europe‘s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022’.

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FOCUS 2022

News magazine FOCUS recommends WITTEWELLER – as it did the previous year – as one of the leading law firms for patent law in 2022 in its annual ranking of Germany’s corporate law firms. We are delighted with the result and take particular pleasure in the fact that, once again, our firm has succeeded in achieving an above-average approval rating among clients.

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Handelsblatt 2021

In 2021, WITTEWELLER was again recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights.

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JUVE 2021

"Patent Filing – Germany 2021"
In 2021, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2021".

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FOCUS 2021

WITTWELLER was listed as a top patent law firm in 2021 in the FOCUS list of leading commercial law firms.

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Handelsblatt 2020

In 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights. On this occasion, the Handelsblatt gave a special mention to the WITTEWELLER attorneys Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck and Mark Wegener.

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JUVE 2020

"Patent Filing – Germany 2020"
In 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2020".

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WirtschaftsWoche 2020

The WirtschaftsWoche ranks WITTEWELLER among the top law firms in patent law. In the ranking for 2020, Dr Gabriele Laufer is singled out as a particularly recommended attorney.

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