German Abstract: Der Anspruch auf Schadensersatz wegen Patentverletzung setzt gemäß § 139 Abs. 2 PatG ein Verschulden des Verletzers voraus. In der Rechtsprechung besteht dagegen die Tendenz, mit einem strengen Sorgfaltsmaßstab diesen Tatbestand einer verschuldensunabhängigen...

Innovation is an inherently uncertain process. Success is typically coupled with risk and we can only hope that those with great ideas will persevere. To encourage innovation, society reduces some of the innovation risk through structures like funding systems, regulation, and of course...

From a law-and-economics perspective the primary goal of (legal) remedies is to enhance social welfare by minimising social costs. Remedies help to achieve cost internalisation since they provide means by which third parties who are negatively affected by the respective action are entitled to...

As businesses and other entities have sought to collect more personal data on individuals, the public has pushed back, and lawmakers throughout the United States and elsewhere have responded by passing data protection laws. Recent data protection laws passed by the European Union and by several...

Blockchain technology is about to revolutionize all areas of daily life. According to proponents of the technology, there is no conceivable application that could not be realized using a blockchain. This raises the question of whether transport-related applications can also be represented and...

German Abstract: Im Patentrecht werden Finanzinnovationen, wie z.B. Hedgefonds, als "Geschäftsmethoden" bezeichnet. Das Thema "Geschäftsmethoden", worunter nicht nur Bank- und Finanzwesen, sondern auch E-Commerce, Versicherungswesen und Steuern fallen, ist höchst umstritten, z.B. im Kontext...

What are business entities for? What are security interests for? The prevailing answer in legal scholarship is that both bodies of law exist to partition assets for the benefit of designated creditors. But if both bodies of law partition assets, then what distinguishes them? In fact, these...

The common-law mortgage has been much maligned. Legal historians have called it everything from “clumsy” to “mendacious.” Following their lead, the current Restatement (Third) of Property: Mortgages, and the leading treatise on mortgage law, denounce the modern incarnation of the...