AIPPI-Library

All working group reports of the German AIPPI National Group (and all other National Groups) can be viewed in the electronic AIPPI Library. You can find the reports by entering the search term “YYYY-GR-Germany” in the search mask under “All Fields”, replacing YYYY with the year in which the relevant working question was dealt with.

To make it easier to find the reports of the German national group, the reports of the last five years are linked directly below:

2024
Patents	Harmonisation of disclosure requirements and consequences of non-compliance
Trademarks	Conflicts between composite trademarks including non-distinctive elements
Copyrights	Defence of parody in copyright law
General	Unjustified allegations of infringement of IP rights

2023
Patents	Doctrine of Equivalents
Trademarks	Proving Trademark Use
Copyrights	Collecting Societies
General	Responsibility of Online Marketplaces for Online Infringement

2022
Patents	Patentability of Diagnostic Methods
Trademarks	Trademarks and the Internet and Social Media
Copyrights	Moral Rights
General	Protection of Trade Secrets during Civil Proceedings

2021
Patents	Inventiveness and Sufficiency of Disclosure in AI Inventions
Trademarks	Registrability of Trademarks against Public Order or Morality
General	Reasonable Awareness in Compensation for Infringement of IP Rights
Designs	Industrial Designs and the Role of Prior Art

2020
Patents	Inventorship of Inventions made using Artificial Intelligence
Trademarks	Descriptive Use as a Defence in Trademarks Proceedings
Copyrights	IP Rights in Data
General	Standing to Litigate and Effect on Remedies

2019
Patents	Plausibility
Trademarks	Consumer Survey Evidence
Copyrights	Copyrigth in Artificially Generated Works
General	IP Damages for Acts other than Sales

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