Cross-Border Contributory Patent Infringement in Germany

This Article examines recent German court decisions analyzing Section 10 of the German Patent Act (“PatG”), which governs cases of contributory patent infringement, focusing in particular on the implications of recent decisions on potential cross-border infringement. The Article offers recommendations on how judicial scrutiny of contributory infringement in Germany may be streamlined in light of potential evidentiary problems and concludes with a case study of how German courts might analyze a situation like that faced by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in AT&T v. Microsoft

Making Industry-University Interactions Work - Model Agreements in Germany

389-393Recent changes in the German Law concerning employees’ inventions have prompted a search for new working models that will pave way for enhanced university-industry interactions. The paper discusses the two most popular agreements, namely, the Berlin Contract and the Munich Contract, used to ensure effective arrangements between the researcher, university and industry