Comments on: Book Review Monday: International Patent Litigation

By: MaxDrei

MaxDrei — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:39:07 +0000

Thanks Stephen. You know, I’m wondering if there is no NL “chapter” because all the patent litigators in that busy jurisdiction were just too busy to write anything for this book.

By: Stephen Albainy-Jenei

Stephen Albainy-Jenei — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:33:05 +0000

MAX,

The book does offer two chapters by the editor’s own law firm, Herbert Smith LLP: Paul England and Sebastian Moore writing on UK law and Alexandra Neri covering France.

However, the bulk of the chapters are by practitioners in firms that (at least on the face) are not affiliated with the editor’s firm.

The book covers Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, UK and US, set out over about 260 pages once you take out the preface and the editor’s chapter on developing and managing an IP strategy. As you note above, the book does not include a section on the Netherlands.

I suppose that a patentee brings litigation where they must, not just were it’s popular, but your point is well taken.

Stephen

By: MaxDrei

MaxDrei — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:53:54 +0000

Is this one of those books with chapters written by the different national offices of the editor’s own law firm, with as many pages devoted to Greece as to Germany, England or the USA. No sign of The Netherlands? I had thought that people litigated in Europe in Holland, as often as in England and Germany, no?