The COVID-19 pandemic poses a major challenge for large parts of the economy, causing many companies to fail and a domino effect on other companies with which they had business relationships. Where a party to an IP license becomes insolvent

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German Federal Constitutional Court rules on constitutional procedural rights of interim injunction defendants
By Maximilian Schmitz & Tiffany Zilliox on
The German Federal Constitutional Court has handed down several landmark decisions which strengthen defendant rights in interim injunction proceedings (Federal Constitutional Court decision of 27 June 2020, case no. 1 BvR 1379/20; decision of 3 June 2020, case no. 1…
German patent interim injunctions require the patent to have survived validity proceedings
By Maximilian Schmitz & Clemens Rübel on
In its decision dated 12 December 2019, the Higher Regional Court Munich ruled that in principle, an interim injunction for patent infringement should not be ordered unless it can be satisfied that the validity of the patent-in-suit is ensured, for…