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We are delighted to present our ideas for your IP rights here. In addition to the current rulings, our free advisory series CFUpdate and CFCompact are available for you to download. If you would prefer a physical copy of our documents rather than reading them on a screen, please e-mail us at marketing@cohausz-florack.de and we’ll send you the brochures by post.
CFUpdate: Valuable, secret, protected: On the handling of information under the new Trade Secrets Act
On 21 March 2019, the German Bundestag passed a new law to better protect secret information and to ensure uniform protection throughout the EU. However, in order for companies to receive comprehensive protection for their trade secrets, they must also protect them better than before under the GeschGehG, i.e. take appropriate protective measures.
CFUpdate: Intellectual property rights in Germany
In a globalized economy, where companies share their services and goods across continents – does anyone actually need special knowledge of German property rights? Absolutely! Because for intellectual property (IP) rights, as in other areas of law, the principle of territoriality applies. Every state grants sovereign rights within its own territory and determines the limits thereof. For IP rights this concerns temporary exclusion rights that are limited to the territory of the state and prohibit the use of the protected subject-matter without the permission of the owner.
CFUpdate - Intellectual property rights at trade fairs
This guide serves to help you find out more about how you can already protect the intellectual property (IP) of your company in the time leading up to a trade fair. You will also be shown what to do if during a trade fair you notice that a competitor has infringed your IP rights.
Download patent specifications with CFDocs
Would you like to have more time for your actual work and to download patent specifications easily and quickly? Then CFDocs is just the thing for you. CFDocs gets you the document you’re looking for in next to no time and opens it in the browser or PDF viewer as you wish.
Firm Brochure
Cohausz & Florack (C&F) is a law firm founded in 1954 comprising 36 patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law as well as about 110 employees with offices in Duesseldorf and Munich. The multidisciplinary law firm supports its clients in all matters relating to IP and unfair competition. This includes the drafting and filing, administration and licensing of extensive IP portfolios, searches for third-party IP and the associated Freedom-to-Operate expert opinions as well as cooperation agreements. C&F also represents its clients in proceedings concerning the infringement and validity of IP rights.
HEVC Patent Enforcement Actions Settled
(DENVER, CO, US – 20 April 2023) – MPEG LA, LLC today announced that the HEVC enforcement actions brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbH ("Samsung") announced on 28 March 2022 have been settled with the taking of licenses.
EU filing strategies for standard essential patents (SEPs) under the UPC
Using the German legal system to avoid risks
Considerable increase in innovations in battery technology
DPMAnutzerforum 2023: Analysis shows a leap in the number of patent applications concerning battery technology, a key technology, especially from Asia and the United States
