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• “Likelihood of Confusion and Trademark Searches—How Can Decisions on Likelihood of Confusion Be Predicted?”

• “The New EU Trademark—Key Changes to the Community Trademark”

• “Current Case Law on Trademark Law—Especially from the Federal Patent Court (BPatG)”

• “The Divided View of the Relevant Public in Trademark Law and Unfair Competition Law”

• “Survey Report on Evidence Issues in Trademark Law: Measuring Market Penetration and Well-Known Trademarks in Germany and at the EU Level”

• “The Challenge Posed by Facts to (Trademark Law) Presumptions Based on Experience”

• “Public Perception in Trademark Law”

• “The End of German Trademark Law?”

• “Likelihood of Confusion Under Trademark Law and Misleading Representations Under Unfair Competition Law”

• “The UWG Information Model—Breach of the Duty to Provide Information Without Misrepresentation”

• “Exploitation and Damage to Reputation Without Misrepresentation of Origin: The Independent Scope of Application of Section 4(9)(b) UWG”

• “KEYWORD ADVERTISING – in the Case Law of the ECJ and the BGH”

• “Competition Law Protection of Performance Rights Following ‘Hartplatzhelden.de’”

• “German and EU Trademark Law; Procedural Law”

• “Distinctive Signs: Business Names, Company Names, Domains”

• “Substantive Competition Law, Unfair Competition Practices & Special Features of Procedure Law”

• “Related Areas of the Unfair Competition Act (UWG): Food Law, Pharmaceutical Advertising Law”

• “50 Years of the WARENTEST Foundation – A Critical Analysis”

• “Latest Developments and Current Case Law in Copyright and Design Law”

• “The Liability of Intermediaries in Copyright Law—Fundamentals and Current Developments”

• “Digitization of Copyright Law Through Interpretation? Limits of Judicial Development of the Law Under EU Law”

• “You Downloaded It, You Sell It—Does the Doctrine of Exhaustion in Copyright Law Also Apply to Copies Downloaded Online?”

• “Copyright Law and Technological Development—Time to Set a New Course?”

• “Legal Conditions of the Moving Image Market”

• “EU Law and Copyright Exploitation Rights”

• “Statutory Compensation Claims and the Treatment of Works in the Knowledge Society”

• “Consent on the Internet”

• “The Use of Trademarks and Copyright-Protected Content on Social Media Networks”

• “Digital Works: Work and/or Software?”

• “Copyright Aspects of Intellectual Property Law”

• “On the Interpretation of Patent Claims”

• “The Imitative Adaptation”

• “Uniform Patent Interpretation and the Principle of Separation in the Case Law of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH)”

• “The European Patent Office—Structure and Role in the Global and European Patent System”

• “Practical Aspects of Patent Invalidity Proceedings at the Federal Patent Court (BPatG)”

• “The Expert Witness in Nullity Proceedings – Waiting for Godot?”

• “Legal Protection Against False Statements in a Description of an Invention”

• “Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry—Do Dispute-Resolving Settlements and Blocking Patents Violate Antitrust Law?”

• “Design Law, Industrial Design Law; Claims Under Competition Law”

• “Protection of Technical Inventions, Utility Models, and Plant Variety Protection & Patent Protection”

• “Product Piracy—‘Pirates’ on the One Hand, ‘Decent’ Infringers on the Other—But Who Is What, and Why Does It Matter?”

• “Successfully Combating Product Piracy”

• “Border Seizure—Scope, Practical Implementation, and Current Developments”

• “Update on International License Agreements & License Agreement Law”

• “Right to Information and Protection of Trade Secrets in Infringement Proceedings”

• “The Misappropriation of Know-How”

• “Attribution of Work Results, Employee Invention Law”

• “Recent Case Law of the 5th Civil Division of the Berlin Court of Appeal on Intellectual Property Law”

• “Antitrust Law & Special Features of Infringement Litigation”