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.
GRUR Int. has entered the new year with a revised concept: The journal is now called "GRUR International" and is published exclusively in English. Articles will be selected based on an independent peer-review process.
The new study “Science Quality and the Value of Inventions” by researchers of the Institute has now been published in the journal Science Advances. The study shows a strong positive correlation between the scientific quality of research contributions and the economic value of patents based on these contributions.
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.
The Max Planck Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminar Series of the Department for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, formerly Brown Bag Seminar, has grown into a well-known research seminar series in Munich’s research environment and beyond.
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, 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
