The Munich Summer Institute 2021 will take place from 7 to 9 June 2021. The call for papers will be released in late 2020. The program will be available in the spring of 2021. More information on the MSI website.
The claim for injunctive relief under patent law shall be subject to proportionality in the future. The Institute has issued a position paper on the amendments proposed by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.
Dietmar Harhoff, director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and member of the board of directors of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), is co-author of the study on the spread and acceptance of remote work in Germany. He stresses that companies should not return to old organizational patterns after the crisis.
The Position Paper generally welcomes the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, but makes suggestions for improvements, in particular, with regard to the application of the principle of proportionality in the injunction relief proceedings and the protection of trade secrets in patent litigation.
Since many effects of the protection of Geographical Indications have not been sufficiently researched, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition last year founded a research group to analyze the GI system within the EU and beyond. The researchers organized a workshop to present their preliminary research findings and to exchange views with international experts.
Frank Mueller-Langer, Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute, is now Professor at the Department of Business Administration at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. His teaching and research focuses on the effects of digital transformation on firms, markets and the society.
The 10th amendment to the GWB (German Competition Act), which is called “GWB Digitization Act”, seeks to adapt the German competition law to the requirements of the modern platform economy. In a presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition co-organized by the Münchner Kartellrechtsforum, Thorsten Käseberg, Head of the Department for Competition and Consumer Policy at the Federal Ministry of Economics, outlined and discussed the first draft bill.
Further research project Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
Tracing the Path from Science to Technology
Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi (MPI and University of Bath), Dr. Fabian Gaessler, Felix Pöge
Further research project Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Regulation of the Digital Economy
Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Carolina Banda, Francisco Beneke, Luc Desaunettes-Barbero, Dr. Michèle Finck, LL.M., Jure Globocnik, Dr. Begoña Gonzalez Otero, Jörg Hoffmann, Daria Kim, Shraddha Kulhari, Michael Mertel, Heiko Richter, Stefan Scheuerer, Peter R. Slowinski, Jannick Thonemann, Klaus Wiedemann
Further research project Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Modernisation of European Copyright Rules
Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Dr. Valentina Moscon (Project coordinator), Andrea Bauer, Dr. Silke von Lewinski, Ricarda Lotte, Heiko Richter, Moritz Sutterer, Tao Li
