This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

Modernization of Patent Law” (Zweites Patentrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz) took effect and modified the German Patent Act (GPA) in … the claim to an injunction in case of patent infringement to the extent such injunction would result, due to the … infringer or third parties that would be disproportionate and not justified by patent exclusivity. Second, § 139(1)(3), (4) GPA …

. Compliance with the code of conduct will shield patent holders from the gaze of competition law and, at the same time, will …

The intersection of patent law with the provisions on digital signatures is characterized by two problems: the … compulsory licensing under competition law, compulsory licensing under patent law is an appropriate means in order to solve the … public domain scheme that the Government can establish pursuant to section 13 of the German Patengesetz (Patent Act) in cases …

(1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent …

The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system … which is currently existing in Germany. To answer this question three essential characteristics of the current German patent … injunctive relief provided by German patent law, and the so-called ‘injunction gap’ as a result of bifurcating infringement and …