Published: 2/7/17
Publication: IPKat
“Can you just agree the confidentiality club regime with the other side?” If you are an associate in an English patent law practice you will have had the joy of not only hearing that request but spending weeks negotiating the operation of and admission to the quintessential confidentiality club. Although many faces fall when they are given this task, all English patent litigators cannot imagine a world without them. The position is not the same in other jurisdictions across Europe, like Germany. However, this may have changed with a recent groundbreaking decision from Düsseldorf. Kat friend Christopher Weber (Kather Augenstein) explains the case which is set to make litigating standard essential patents (SEP) in Germany a whole lot easier” – [READ MORE]