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"IN FOCUS: BORDER SEIZURE"

an article by Christian Thomas, published in The Patent Lawyer, Issue May/June 2023 of CTC Legal Media.

VENI, VIDI, VICI ... ALMOST

After a three-year's break, we competed in this year's Bavarian Patent Attorneys' Table Football Tournament in aid of the Child Health Foundation with two teams:

Kuhnen & Wacker I (Rainer K. Kuhnen & Ulrich C. Wagner)
Kuhnen & Wacker II (Stefan Hofstetter-Spona & Gerald Vogel).

Kuhnen & Wacker II finished in 2nd place and Kuhnen & Wacker I in 3rd place. We had to surrender only to the well-deserved winning team of the law firm 2SPL.
Once again a nice and successful tournament for a good cause! Many thanks to all organizers, sponsors and donors.

from the left: Rainer K. Kuhnen, Gerald Vogel, Stefan Hofstetter-Spona

"GERMAN FEDERAL COURT OF JUSTICE ON THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION FROM GOOGLE"

an article by Detlef von Ahsen, published in The Trademark Lawyer, Issue 2 2023 of CTC Legal Media.

"HICCS…"

Our first blog post in connection with the American startup show "Shark Tank" is about a special drinking straw named "HiccAway" that promises fast and effective help against hiccups.

We take a closer look at the patent.

JUST NOW IN FREISING, SOON IN SINGAPORE

INTA Annual Meeting in Singapore from May 16 – 20, 2023

Verena Schladt, Christian Thomas and Detlef von Ahsen would be very pleased to meet you again in person. To arrange a meeting, please feel free to reach out via e-mail.

See you in Singapore!

SAVE THE DATE

for our K&W European Intellectual Property Seminar from October 1 to 4, 2023 in Freising! 
More information will follow. We look forward to seeing you there!

EPO NEWS

The EPO has published further information concerning "the ten-day rule" that will be abandoned from November 1, 2023.

More details can be seen under the following link.

SHARK TANK, DRAGON'S DEN, DIE HÖHLE DER LÖWEN ...

Our "Die Höhle der Patente" blog has not only received a visual makeover, but will also feature content from other international TV shows on our English blog in the future. Click here for the previous entries about "Die Höhle der Löwen" in English.

ELWINE KASCHNER PUBLISHES FOR WOLTERS KLUWER - Part II

Now the second part of the article

„Frischer Wind in der Patentwelt – Herausforderung für Ausbildung und Formalsachbearbeitung"
("Fresh air in the patent world - challenge for training and formalities").

by Elwine Kaschner (senior paralegal, human resources manager and training manager) has been published in German and can be found online at Wolters Kluwer under the section Expertenbeiträge, or here as a PDF.

EPO NEWS

Today, the German government deposited its instrument of ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) with the Council of the European Union.

The step marks the successful completion of the necessary ratification procedures by the participating EU member states for the Unitary Patent Package to become effective for currently 17 states.

The new system is now ready to enter into operation on 1 June 2023. 

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