Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
On July 9, 2025, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs ("JURI") published a study examining how generative artificial intelligence ("AI") interacts with European Union copyright law....more
The beginning of 2025 saw two overarching trends in FRAND litigation...more
In a landmark decision, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Local Division Mannheim set standards for enforcing standard essential patents (SEPs) and for negotiating fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) licenses under...more
On November, 22, 2024, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) delivered a landmark ruling in Panasonic v. Oppo, setting a significant precedent in the realm of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and...more
The Court of Appeal of The Hague has again given guidance on the interpretation of the CJEU decision in Huawei v ZTE and the standards for assessing FRAND defences under Dutch law. In its decision of 2 July 2019, less than...more
On 16 May 2019, the CJEU Advocate General delivered his opinion in Spedidam, following the request for a preliminary ruling from the French Supreme Court on whether the French legal framework allowing the French National...more
For the first time, the Court of Appeal of The Hague has given guidance on the interpretation of the CJEU decision in Huawei v ZTE and the standards for assessing FRAND defences under Dutch law. ...more
With decision of 8 May 2017, the regional Court of Berlin referred to questions for preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The court is concerned whether the rules on the press publishers’...more
On 7 July 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that, provided that a licensee is free to terminate a licence agreement on reasonable notice, it can be obliged to pay royalties even after the patent...more
On 7 July 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down a judgment on whether Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) must be interpreted as precluding effect being...more