Patent Enforcement in the US, Germany and Japan

Toshiko Takenaka, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Washington,Christoph Rademacher, Patent scholar, Waseda University,Jan Krauss, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert,Jochen Pagenberg, Co-founder and Attorney-at-Law, Bardehle Pagenberg,Tilman Mueller-Stoy, Partner, Bardehle Pagenberg,Christof Karl, Partner, Bardehle Pagenberg

Prof. Dr. Toshiko Takenaka is a leading patent comparative law scholar who has been teaching U.S. patent law since 1992 at the University of Washington School of Law, and is also the founder of the IP Law and Policy LL.M. Program.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Rademacher is a comparative law scholar at Waseda University, Tokyo.

Dr. Jan Krauss is a patent attorney at Boehmert & Boehmert, as well as an affiliate instructor of law and guest lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, and teaches IP on the Executive MBA in Life Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Germany.

Michael C. Elmer is Senior Counsel at Finnegan. He leads a global patent enforcement project with partner IP law firms in Asia and Europe to develop statistical data to facilitate patent owners and defendants for selecting the best forum.

Dr. Jochen Pagenberg is co-founder and senior member of Bardehle Pagenberg, as well as an adviser to the German Federal Ministry of Justice.

Dr. Tilman Mueller-Stoy is a Partner of Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich. He lectures on IP Law at Munich Technical University, and teaches patent law at the George Washington School of Law and the Dresden University of Technology.

Part I: Introduction
1. History
2. Legal Framework
3. Patent Enforcement Institutions
4. Patent Professionals and Business Culture
Part II: Infringement
5. Introduction
6. United States
7. Germany
8. Japan
Part III: Validity Challenge
9. United States
10. Germany
11. Japan
Part IV: Enforcement Procedure
12. United States
13. Germany
14. Japan
Part V: Remedies
15. United States
16. Germany
17. Japan
Part VI: Best Practice
18. Analysis and Proposal of Best Practice