The EPO Working Party on Litigation and its sub-group have in the past three and a half years elaborated a treaty text 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...

Private plaintiffs in U.S. civil litigation seeking damages alleged to have resulted from cartel activities often view the European Commission’s case file as an important source of evidence against cartel participants and seek through U.S. discovery procedures to obtain access to materials in...

Droht Europa eine Sammelklageindustrie US-amerikanischen Zuschnitts, die die Unternehmen zu teilweisen extrem hohen Schadensersatzleistungen zwingt? Die Europäische Kommission denkt jedenfalls sowohl im Kartell- als auch im Verbraucherschutz über die Einführung von Sammelklagen nach. Doch wie...