European Union (ECJ) has found that the EU centralized patent litigation system recently proposed by the Council of the …-awaited EU patent litigation scheme (as envisaged in the Draft Agreement on the European and Community Patents Court). This blow …

Although patent litigation has become increasingly global, with litigants earning billion-dollar verdicts and seeking … litigants are increasingly drawn, and to which policy makers interested in harmonizing the U.S. patent system look in vain for … database including nearly 9,000 patent suits from seven of the largest and most judicially-active countries in the European …

The determinants of court selection in patent litigation -- The effects of bifurcation in patent litigation systems … -- The timing of patent transfers in Europe. …Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany …

of an agreement for a European Patent Litigation System. The heart of this system includes a European Patent Court. The … agreement on the cornerstones for a Community Patent Court, and on the other points in regard to the Community patent in the … common political approach of March 3, 2003, questions the further necessity for a European Patent Court. The author shows why …