Open Innovation and Compulsory Access Regimes to Technology - an Analysis in the Light of the Pandemic

Report (2023)

Report about a research study at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP) / Japan Patent Office (JPO) about the legal framework of patent law and the COVID-19 pandemic

The Latest Amendment to the German Law on Patent Injunctions: The New Statutory Disproportionality Exception and Third-Party Interests

in Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Internationaler Teil (2022)

Anmerkung zur EuGH-Entscheidung in C-44/21 (Phoenix Contact v Harting)

in Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte (2022), 2022(6), 277-279

Rezension Marvin Bartels: Ethik und Patentrecht. Verhältnisse und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Ethik und Patentrecht vor dem Hintergrund innovativer Biotechnologien. 2020.

in Intellectual Property Journal (2022)

Do we need artificial inventors?

Article for general public (2021)

Ausschließlichkeit in der (Corona-)Krise – Über Alternativen und Zugangslösungen im pandemierelevanten Innovationsermöglichungsrecht.

in JuristenZeitung (2021)

A De Lege Ferenda Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Systems Designated as Inventors in the European Patent System.

in Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Internationaler Teil (2021)

The European patent system was designed around a paradigm of human inventorship. This paper will analyse in depth and from a de lege ferenda perspective the rather general arguments against and in favour ... [more ▼]

The European patent system was designed around a paradigm of human inventorship. This paper will analyse in depth and from a de lege ferenda perspective the rather general arguments against and in favour of a possible designation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems as inventors. For the sake of a more concrete discussion, it will also outline a potential reform of the European patent system to implement AI inventorship and allocate the right to the European patent for such inventions by default to the machine’s operator. In the process, it will highlight the major specific issues associated with a reform that acknowledges AI inventorship and touch upon possible alternative approaches to addressing the growing autonomy of machines within the R&D process. The study must not be understood as a call for a reform to recognise AI systems as inventors but rather as a manner of laying the foundations for a more concrete, critical and fruitful discussion on non-human inventorship and its alternatives. The analysis will show that the more general, highly conceptional reservations advanced in the current discussion against AI inventorship are somewhat unfounded, e.g. the alleged break with the functions of the current patent system or the alleged need to endow AI with legal personality. More convincing arguments against a reform that allows for the designation of AI systems as inventor might instead relate to the specific difficulties associated with such reform. [less ▲]

Neues von der patentrechtlichen Zwangslizenz. Ein Überblick anlässlich BGH „Alirocumab“.

in Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (2020)

Artificial Intelligence Designated as Inventor – An Analysis of the Recent EPO Case Law.

in Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Internationaler Teil (2020)

Der quasi-automatische Unterlassungsanspruch im deutschen Patentrecht. Ein Beitrag im Lichte der Reformdiskussion des § 139 I PatG.

in Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (2019)