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German law on patent injunctions: legal framework and recent developments
Abstract
For patent litigation, Germany arguably is, together with the United Kingdom, the paramount venue in Europe.1 Stakeholders, such as patentees, licensees, inhouse and outside counsel, scholars and nonGerman courts or lawmakers, therefore have a strong interest not only in the established legal framework for patent litigation in Germany, but also in shifts this framework is, of late, undergoing. At the same time, the language barrier complicates insights on these matters, not least for AngloAmerican stakeholders, although a slowly increasing part of scholarship, and even of case-law, is available in English. Against this background, the present contribution sets out to explain basic structures and recent developments in German patent injunction law. It covers the main types of and requirements for such injunctions under German law (A.), the injunction’s scope as claimed and granted (B.), bifurcation and stays (C.), defenses and limitations (D.), alternatives to injunctive relief (E.), and recent developments (F.), before a conclusion and an outlook (G.) round off the paper.
This joint article tries to identify yet another factor that shapes IP laws and regimes in some major Asian economies. It finds that it is the actual use or overuse of criminal punishment for protecting IP rights that distinguishes Asian IP laws and regimes from Western ones typified by Germany. After introducing the two major research questions, this article first surveys the Asian IP landscape, in the order of when IP laws were introduced into the civil law jurisdictions (Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and China), and into the common law jurisdictions (India, Malaysia, and Hong Kong) respectively. This article then examines German experiences in having the statutory principle of criminal prosecution following civil or administrative law procedure, the prosecution of IP criminal cases, and its judicial practice. This is followed by comparative study between Asian economies and Germany and critical policy analysis of IP crimes. It ends with some suggestions for Asian economies, IP leading economies, and the WTO community.
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