German authors' right or Deutsches Urheberrecht is codified in the Gesetz über Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte. An official translation is available.
The Satellite and Cable Directive, formally the Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission, is a European Union directive that governs the application of copyright and related rights to satellite and cable television in the European Union. It was made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rome.
Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht is a monthly intellectual property law journal published in German. It is the journal of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and was established in 1899. The journal articles mainly concern German law. It is the journal with the longest tradition in the field of intellectual property law in Germany. Because of the green cover of the journal, the whole area of intellectual property law is commonly referred to as "green section" among German lawyers.
The German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property is a German professional association "concerned with the protection of intellectual property rights". It was founded in 1891 and publishes:
Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht Rechtsprechungs-Report (GRUR-RR) is a monthly intellectual property law journal published in German. It comprises case law decisions "supplementing the court rulings section" of the main Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) journal. The first issue was published in 2001.
The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is a Munich, Germany, based research institute, which is part of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, which manages 84 institutes and research institutions. The institute was formerly known as the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law and the name was changed to Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in view of the broader focus of the institute and its interdisciplinary character. The major research areas of the institute are intellectual property, innovation and competition. Apart from providing research support for scholars from across the world, the institute also publishes the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC).
Joseph Straus is professor of intellectual property law, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany, and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC). According to the Intellectual Asset Management magazine, he is "one of the world's most influential patent scholars." He is member and dean of the Class "Social Sciences, Law and Economics" of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) is a center for both research and education in intellectual property and competition law, founded in 2003 and based in Munich, Germany. The MIPLC is a project of the George Washington University Law School and three German institutions: the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the University of Augsburg, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). It offers the English-language LL.M. program "Intellectual Property and Competition Law."
The European Patent Judges' Symposium is a biennial symposium, with the claimed aim of providing a platform for national judges from legal systems with differing traditions to exchange experiences and to thereby promote mutual understanding in the development of European patent law.
Juliane Kokott is the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Professor at the University of St. Gallen.
Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer is a former president of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA), a post she held from 1 January 2009 until her retirement in January 2023. She studied law, politics and media studies and was, after the second legal civil service examination, employed as academic employee at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law and at the Institut for the Protection of Industrial Property at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She retired at the end of January 2023 and was succeeded by Eva Schewior. Rudloff-Schäffer was the first woman to head the German Patent and Trade Mark Office "in the 145-year history of the office".
Rechtsschutz means "legal protection" in German. The term is used in the name of the following academic journals:
Verica Trstenjak is a Slovenian Doctor of Laws and Professor of European Law based in Vienna, Austria. From 2006 to 2012 she has been an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg (CJEU), from 2004 to 2006 judge of the General Court.
The Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance is an interdisciplinary research center in Munich. The Institute is part of the Max Planck Society, Germany’s foremost provider of basic research in science and humanities, funded largely from public resources.
Wolfgang Fikentscher was a German jurist and legal anthropologist.
Romuald Singer was director of the international section of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), Strasbourg, and chairman of the Enlarged and the Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO). He also authored the first edition of a well-known commentary on the European Patent Convention.
Carl Alexander von Martius was a German chemist and entrepreneur.
Gerhard Schricker was a German legal scholar with a focus on intellectual property and competition law. He was a full professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1973 to 2000 and served as Director of the Munich-based Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law between 1971 and 2003.
