Heinz Goddar

Boehmert & Boehmert - Managing Senior Partner, Past-LESI President, Patent Attorney

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar is a German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Tradmark Attorney with his office in Munich, as partner of Boehmert & Boehmert. His technical background (as well as PHD degree) is in physics. He teaches Intellectual Property Law as a Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a Lecturer atthe Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, and as Visiting Professor as well as Lecturer at serveral further universities in both Asia and the U.S.A.. He is a Past-President of LES International and of LES Germany. Her received the Gold Medal of LESI in 2005 and has been inducted into the IP Hall of Fame. Furthermore he is a member of the EPO’s Standing Advisory Committee (SACEPO).

All Sessions by Heinz Goddar

  • Day 3

    Tue, May 19, 2020

  • 16:30  - 18:00
    When Standard Essential Patents ("SEPS") are licensed to participants in a supply chain, a basic question is whether the respective patentee is obliged to grant a license under FRAND conditions to each and any "willing licensee" along the supply chain. If so, a further question is whether the patentee is entitled to apply different royalty rates to licensees at different levels of the supply chain. Another question of importance is whether principles of patent exhaustion would still allow the patentee/licensor to impose restrictions on the FRAND licensee with regard to sources of supply ("upstream") and/or customers ("downstream"). In discussing these questions, the panel will also consider current considerations on possible changes of patent law, particularly in relation to the proportionality of injunctive relief under equity considerations.
    Plenary




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