Patent Law Series  |  12/18/2015, 06:00 PM

Verfassungsrechtliche Anforderungen an den Patentschutz

6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Hans-Jürgen Papier, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Im Bereich der wirtschaftlichen Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien findet seit einigen Jahren weltweit eine Art „Patentkrieg“ statt. Die von den Rechtsordnungen äußerst schlagkräftig geschmiedeten Waffen in jenen Auseinandersetzungen um Marktanteile und Umsatzerlöse in Bereichen wie etwa Smartphones, Tablet-PCs und Internettechnologien sind Patente, die Schlachtfelder in zunehmendem Maße gerichtliche Verfahren. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob das geltende deutsche Recht, insbesondere § 139 Abs. 1 PatG wegen der im Wesentlichen einschränkungslosen Zubilligung eines Unterlassungsanspruchs noch den verfassungsrechtlichen Anforderungen an Gesetze entspricht, die den Inhalt und die Schranken des Patenteigentums nach Art. 14 Abs. 1 S. 2 und Abs. 2 GG bestimmen. Es fehlt an einer ausreichenden normativen Vorsorge gegen unverhältnismäßige Beeinträchtigungen grundrechtlicher Belange Dritter bei der Ausübung des eigentumsrechtlichen Primärrechts. Bis zu einer gesetzlichen Neuregelung ist es Aufgabe der allgemein zuständigen Zivilgerichte, im Rahmen patentrechtlicher Verletzungsverfahren und bei der Beurteilung der Unterlassungsbegehren nach § 139 Abs. 1 PatG den verfassungsrechtlichen Anforderungen der gerechten Abwägung nach Maßgabe des Verhältnismäßigkeitsgrundsatzes Rechnung zu tragen.

Einladung zur Veranstaltung

Conference  |  12/11/2015, 09:00 AM

Assistentenforum 2015: Koexistenz und Kumulation im Immaterialgüterrecht

9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Presentation  |  11/30/2015, 06:00 PM

MIPLC Lecture Series: (IP) Negotiations as Multi-Party Joint Decision-Making

6:00 - 7.30 p.m., Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Seminar  |  11/11/2015, 06:00 PM

Institutsseminar: Preliminary Injunctions in Patent Litigation

6:00 - 7.30 p.m., Arthur Martels, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Miscellaneous  |  11/10/2015, 05:00 PM

IP Dispute Resolution Forum

5:00 - 7:30 p.m., Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Events  |  11/05/2015 |

Brown Bag Seminar: How Do Patents Shape Global Value Chains? International and Domestic Patenting and Value-Added Trade

Travis J. Lybbert (University of California)

Events  |  11/04/2015 |

Brown Bag Seminar: The Unpredictably Stable Entrepreneur

Virgilio Failla (Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization, LMU Munich)

This paper challenges the conventional belief that entrepreneurship is an unstable career path. Entrepreneurship is shown to decrease rather than increase individuals’ turnover tendencies. This finding persists after controlling for lock-in effects associated with sunk costs and unfavorable outside options.

Entrepreneurship is argued to represent a high quality job-match for individuals who otherwise portray above average turnover rates. Arguably, matching emerges from (i) preferences for independence, (ii) skills composition, and (iii) redeployability of human capital into new settings. The counter-intuitive finding – entrepreneurship yields greater employment stability – has fundamental implications for our understanding of entrepreneurship entry and labor market dynamics.

Presentation  |  11/02/2015, 06:00 PM

Asia Roundtable: Pharmaceutical Mergers and their Effect on Access and Efficiency: A Case of Emerging Markets

6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Presentation  |  10/28/2015, 02:00 PM

6th GRUR Int. / JIPLP Joint Seminar: Internet Search Engines in the Focus of EU Competition Law – a Closer Look at the Broader Picture

2:00 - 7:30 p.m., Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Seminar  |  10/28/2015 | 12:00 PM  –  01:30 PM

Brown Bag Seminar: Quantity, Usability, and Novelty: The Effects of Incentives on Creativity

Marina Schröder (University of Cologne)

We study the effect of incentives on different dimensions of creative work. To do so, we introduce a novel real-effort task that allows us to measure quantity, usability, and novelty of individuals’ creative output. In three treatments, we introduce incentives either for quantity alone or for quantity in combination with usability or novelty. We compare performance in these treatments to a baseline with fixed incentives. We find that incentivizing quantity alone or quantity in combination with novelty results in an increase in quantity and novelty and a decrease in the average quality compared to the baseline. Combined incentives for quality and quantity do not have a significant effect on any of the dimensions of creativity. Our findings are in line with a multi-tasking model where agents choose an optimal allocation of effort between quantity and usability and novelty is negatively correlated to quality. (Authors: Katharina Laske/Marina Schröder)