Over 80,000 inventions were filed for patents or utility models in Germany in 2014. 80-90% of these are based on inventions by employees. The Employee Invention Act grants them a claim to "reasonable compensation." However, calculating this compensation is complex and generally involves significant…

With the reform of the Bankruptcy Act to a modern insolvency law, the legislature has created a pitfall for licensees. All attempts to address this problem through legislation have so far failed. Meanwhile, the Federal Court of Justice has made the matter more complicated with a series of decisions…