Patentanwälte & Lawyers
Unit Patent, new key decisions from the EPO, ECJ on cross-border lawsuits, AI as an inventor, Designreform: The compact overview of everything, what has happened since 2023 has changed.
since 1. December 2025 Names such as “Solingen” or “Glashütte” can be registered as geographical indications throughout the EU. Existing national regulations end in December 2026.
The EU Commission has the planned regulation on standard-essential patents 2025 withdrawn. since 19. January 2026 However, the new EU regulation on compulsory licenses in times of crisis applies.
since 1. More 2025 The reformed EU design law applies, in September 2026 the Bundestag decided to modernize the design law. The most important changes at a glance.
The Federal Court of Justice has on 11. June 2024 (X ZB 5/22) decided: Only a person can be an inventor. Anyone who uses AI to invent things, but can be named as the inventor himself.
Since the decisions G 1/22 and G 2/22 from 10. October 2023 At the EPO there is a rebuttable presumption, that the applicant may claim the priority of an earlier application.
What G 1/23 from 2. July 2025 The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO has abandoned reworkability as a prerequisite for state of the art for publicly available products.
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO decided on 18. June 2025 decided: Descriptions and drawings must always be taken into account when interpreting patent claims - not just in the case of unclear claims.
With the judgment of 25. February 2025 The ECJ has made cross-border patent infringement lawsuits much easier. The UPC has now itself submitted the question of “long-arm” jurisdiction to the ECJ.
since 1. June 2023 There is the Unitary Patent and the Unitary Patent Court (UPC). What has proven to work?, what numbers are there and what should patent holders pay attention to now??