Abstract
This Article examines recent German court decisions analyzing Section 10 of the German Patent Act (“PatG”), which governs cases of contributory patent infringement, focusing in particular on the implications of recent decisions on potential cross-border infringement. The Article offers recommendations on how judicial scrutiny of contributory infringement in Germany may be streamlined in light of potential evidentiary problems and concludes with a case study of how German courts might analyze a situation like that faced by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in AT&T v. Microsoft.
First Page
135
Recommended Citation
Heinz Goddar,
Cross-Border Contributory Patent Infringement in Germany,
7 Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts
135
(2011).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjlta/vol7/iss2/6