German Parliament Adopts Amended Patent Law Bill
01-Jul-2009 | Life Sciences & Healthcare, Patents
On 28 May 2009 the German federal parliament (Bundestag) adopted the government’s draft bill to simplify and modernise German patent law. The bill is expected to come into force on 1 October or November 2009, in the second month after its promulgation. Contrary to what the bill’s title seems to imply, it leaves substantive patent law largely unaffected and primarily reforms procedural issues in order to speed up patent revocation proceedings and simplify the rules governing employee inventions.
Lawyers Christoph de Coster
