Patent law commentary

Advantages: Comprehensive, internationally oriented, representation by professionals from all patent law-related fields.

About the work: The uniqueness of this work lies in its coverage of the entire patent and utility model law, including not only the German Patent Act (PatG) and Utility Model Act (GebrMG) but also the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the European Patent Convention (EPC), the latter without the internal institutional regulations. Related special topics such as patent attorney law, employee invention law, and plant variety protection law, as well as the law on supplementary protection certificates at the European level, are also addressed. High standards were set for the quality and practical relevance of the presentations. For example, the preface to sections 139 ff. of the PatG provides an introduction to patent infringement proceedings, the thoroughness and level of which correspond to that of a standalone monograph.