Peter R. Slowinski, J.S.M. (Stanford)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
+49 89 24246-431
peter.slowinski(at)ip.mpg.de
Arbeitsbereiche:
Immaterialgüterrecht (insb. Patentrecht), Zivilprozessrecht und alternative Konfliktbearbeitung (insb. Mediation), Künstliche Intelligenz, Life Sciences
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Seit 2024
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb in der Abteilung Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research mit Schwerpunkt auf der Beobachtung des Einheitspatents und des Einheitlichen Patentgerichts
Seit Okt 2024
Assistent an der Fakultät für Rechts- und Verwaltungswissenschaften der Adam Mickiewicz Universität in Poznan, Polen
Aug/Sept 2024
Gast (Fellow) am Weizenbaum Insitut in Berlin
2017 - 2024
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb in der Abteilung Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht
zugleich Promotion an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München bei Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty
Thema: Dysfunktionale Effekte der Durchsetzung von Immaterialgüterrechten
2014 - 2016
Rechtsanwalt im Bereich Patentprozessführung und Patentlizenzrecht in einer internationalen Wirtschaftskanzlei in München
2013 - 2014
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
2012 - 2013
Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
2011 - 2012
Postgraduiertes Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Stanford University, Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA (Master of the Science of Law, J.S.M.)
Fellow im Rahmen des Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS) an der Stanford Law School, Stanford
Research Assistant im Rahmen des Projekts „Future of the Legal Profession“ unter der Leitung von Frau Professor Deborah Hensler an der Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA
2010 - 2011
Stipendiat am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
2009
Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen, München, Deutschland
2007 - 2009
Referendariat im Bezirk des Oberlandesgerichts München
2007
Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen, München, Deutschland
2004 - 2007
Studium der Rechtswissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland
2003 - 2004
Studienaufenthalt an der Cardiff University (Diploma in Legal Studies), Abschlussarbeit zur Patentierbarkeit computerimplementierter Erfindungen, Cardiff, UK
2001 - 2003
Studium der Rechtswissenschaften, Universität Passau, Passau, Deutschland
Ehrungen, wissenschaftliche Preise, Stipendien
John Hart Ely Prize der Stanford Law School for Outstanding Performance in ADR Policy Practice and Law
Promotionsstipendium des Max-Planck-Instituts für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Studienstipendium der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Erasmus-Förderung der Europäischen Union für den Studienaufenthalt an der Cardiff University
Mitgliedschaften
Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum (IPDR) - Mitglied im Vorstand
Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Publikationen
Beiträge in Sammelwerken, Kommentierungen, Handbüchern und Lexika
Inter- und Intradisziplinarität in der juristischen Forschung und Lehre, in: Kreation Innovation Märkte - Creation Innovation Markets - Festschrift Reto M. Hilty, Springer, Berlin; Heidelberg 2024, 753 - 765. DOI
- Zunehmend komplexe Fragestellungen zur Anreizsetzung für Innovationen in Bereichen wie der Künstlichen Intelligenz, der Geneditierung oder des Klimawandels stellen eine Herausforderung für die Rechtswissenschaft dar. Will diese die Sachverhalte tatsächlich durchdringen und rechtlich greifen, zwingt dies zu einem Aufbrechen von Silodenken und zu einer stärkeren Nutzung inter- und intradisziplinärer Ansätze. Diese neuen Herausforderungen für die Rechtswissenschaft zwingen zugleich zu einem Umdenken bei der Ausbildung künftiger Generationen von Rechtswissenschaftlerinnen und Rechtswissenschaftlern.
Artificial Intelligence, Novelty and Inventive Step: What Is the Impact of AI on Patent Law?, in: Rafal Sikorski, Zaneta Zemla-Pacud (
Rethinking Software Protection, in: Jyh-An Lee, Reto M. Hilty, Kung-Chung Liu (
- The core of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is software of one sort or another. Of course, if software were a mere ingredient, we may have had AI applications already decades ago. After all, it was Allen Touring who in the 1950s developed the first test for AI and concepts surrounding it. But while available data and computing power are important for the recent quantum leap in AI, there would not be any AI without computer programs or software. Therefore, the rise in importance of AI forces us to take — once again — a closer look at software protection through intellectual property (IP) rights, but it also offers us a chance to rethink this protection, and while perhaps not undoing the mistakes of the past, to at least adapt the protection so as not to increase the dysfunctionality that we have come to see in this area of law for the past decades. To be able to establish the best possible way to protect — or not to protect — the software in AI applications, this chapter starts with a short technical description of what AI is, and readers are referred to other chapters in this book for a deeper analysis (1). It continues by identifying those parts of AI applications that constitute software to which legal software protection regimes may be applicable (2), before outlining those protection regimes, namely copyright and patents (3). The core part of the chapter analyses potential issues regarding software protection with respect to AI using specific examples from the fields of evolutionary algorithms and of machine learning (4). Finally, the chapter draws some conclusions regarding the future development of IP regimes with respect to AI (5).
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-17
Section 6.4 - Further instruments to protect the results of clinical research - Summary, in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Chapter 19 - SPCs for plant protection products, in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Chapter 17 - Paediatric extensions, in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Chapter 16 - Duration of the SPC (Art. 13 Reg. 469/2009), in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Chapter 15 - The rights conferred by the SPC and its limitations (Art. 5 Reg. 469/2009), in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Chapter 8 - The Effectiveness of the SPC System in the EU, in: Roberto Romandini, Reto M. Hilty, Annette Kur (
Kapitel 3.3 - Spezifische Fehlstellungen mit Bezug auf den Binnenmarkt, in: Reto M. Hilty, Thomas Jaeger (
Patenting Coffee - IP Protection and Its Impact on Innovation in the Coffee-Capsule Market, in: Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation (Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation, 3), Springer, Berlin 2014, 489 - 503 (
- Despite a hard to kill belief patents are not a booster for innovation per se but an instrument of competition and innovation policy that needs to be used in a careful manner and with a clear understanding of its functioning and consequences. In the last decades discussions about the strengths and weaknesses of the patenting system have circulated mostly around pharmaceuticals or the information technology. Some of the most important questions addressed in these discussions are the ever rising and unmanageably large number of patents, a phenomenon known as patent thickets, the overlapping of different intellectual property rights, and in consequence the limitation of necessary competition.
Aufsätze
New Genomic Techniques and Intellectual Property Law: Challenges and Solutions for the Plant Breeding Sector - Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition: Munich, 8 January 2024, GRUR Int 73, 4 (2024), 323 - 339 (
- On 5 July 2023, the European Commission proposed a regulation aiming to ease the requirements for the marketing authorisation of plants obtained through certain new genomic techniques (NGTs) within the European Union (EU). While NGTs are expected to become more attractive to breeders and farmers, the complexity of the intellectual property (IP) landscape surrounding these techniques and resulting products may negatively impact technology diffusion and innovation. Given numerous concerns related to IP protection for NGTs and NGT-derived plants, this Position Statement from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition presents a set of policy recommendations for facilitating access to and utilisation of IP-protected NGTs and NGT-derived products in the breeding sector.
Revisiting the Framework for Compulsory Licensing of Patents in the European Union – Reflections on the European Commission’s Initiative, GRUR Int 72, 5 (2023), 471 - 482 (
- Within the scope of its initiative on ‘Compulsory Licensing in the EU’,8 the European Commission launched a call for evidence on 1 April 2022 and a public consultation on 7 July 2022 with the aim of gathering views from stakeholders. The objective of this initiative is to explore the possibility of revising the framework for compulsory licensing in the EU to make it more ‘adequately prepared and coordinated to tackle future crises’.9 The authors of this position paper welcome the Commission’s attempt to reinvigorate the public discourse on this important subject.
Depending on the issue to be addressed and the extent of the Commission’s willingness to reform, different regulatory approaches are conceivable. Subject to compatibility with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, these include:
Rather than making concrete recommendations on the regulatory approach, this paper addresses selected aspects by way of a preliminary, non-exhaustive note on: the proposed reform’s scope and the grounds for a compulsory licence; the requirements of prior negotiation and licensing failure; government use; procedural matters; compulsory licences for patent applications and products; the relation with other regulations and sui generis regimes (i.e. trade secret protection, regulatory data protection and supplementary protection certificates); the concept of adequate remuneration; compulsory licences for European patents with unitary effect; and the exhaustion of products placed on the market under a compulsory licence.
– soft law measures, such as guidelines and recommendations;
– harmonisation of national laws (substantive and/or procedural);10
– judicial cooperation (i.e. mutual recognition of judgments and of decisions in extrajudicial cases);11
– centralisation of granting and/or judicial review competences;
– creation of a supranational compulsory licence;
– or any combination thereof.
The Data Sharing Economy: On the Emergence of New Intermediaries, IIC 50, 1 (2019), 4 - 29 (
- Data-driven markets depend on access to data as a resource for products and services. Since the quality of information that can be drawn from data increases with the available amount and quality of the data, businesses involved in the data economy have a great interest in accessing data from other market players. However, companies still appear to be reluctant to share their data. Therefore, the key question is how data sharing can be incentivized. This article focuses on data sharing platforms, which are emerging as new intermediaries and can play a vital role in the data economy, as they may increase willingness to share data. By comparing data sharing to the exchange of patents based on the FRAND principles, this article suggests a possible way for self-regulation to provide more transparency and fairness in the growing markets for data sharing.
Study Question 2017 – Quantification of monetary relief, GRUR Int 66, 8-9 (2017), 737 - 744 (
Standardessentielle Patente – Perspektiven außerhalb des Kartellrechts, GRUR Int 64, 9 (2015), 781 - 792 (
Entscheidungsanmerkungen
Licensing Standard Essential Patents and the German Federal Supreme Court Decisions FRAND Defence I and FRAND Defence II, IIC 52, 10 (2021), 1490 - 1497. DOI
Comment on the German Federal Supreme Court Decision "Raltegravir" - Patent Act, Secs. 24, 85(1), IIC 49, 1 (2018), 125 - 130. DOI
Case Note on: "United Video Properties", IIC 48, 3 (2017), 373 - 377. DOI
Perlentaucher/FAZ, Comment on the decision by the German Federal Supreme Court, IIC 42, 8 (2011), 989 - 992.
Tagungs- und Diskussionsberichte
Declaration on Patent Protection: Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS – Bericht zum Workshop in Berlin am 11. und 12.7.2017, GRUR Int 67, 1 (2018), 30 - 33.
- Event: Workshop zur Patent Declaration, Berlin, 2017-07-11
Forschungspapiere
Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 6 February 2024 on the Commission's Proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Research Paper, No. 24-03), 2024, 41
Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors? A Position Statement of 7 September 2021 in View of the Evolving Case-Law Worldwide (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 21-20), 2021, 11
- On 30 July 2021 the Federal Court of Australia handed down a decision in which it accepted that an artificial intelligence (AI) system called DABUS can be deemed the inventor under Australian patent law. While the decision appears ground-breaking at first sight, it was mostly based on unverified assumptions regarding the technical capabilities of AI systems in general and DABUS in particular. Furthermore, the decision omits important questions regarding the consequences that may follow from attributing inventorship to an entity that lacks legal capacity without undertaking a comprehensive analysis that would justify such attribution. This Position Statement highlights the shortcomings of the decision and points to those factual and legal questions that need to be answered first before recognising AI systems as inventors. While it responds primarily to the decision of the Australian Federal Court, the presented arguments can be of relevance for any jurisdiction dealing with the question of whether an AI system can be deemed an inventor under patent law.
Technical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: An Understanding from an Intellectual Property Law Perspective (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 19-13), 2019, 15
- The present Q&A paper aims at providing an overview of artificial intelligence with a special focus on machine learning as a currently predominant subfield thereof. Machine learning-based applications have been discussed intensely in legal scholarship, including in the field of intellectual property law, while many technical aspects remain ambiguous and often cause confusion.
This text was drafted by the Research Group on the Regulation of the Digital Economy of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in the pursuit of understanding the fundamental characteristics of artificial intelligence, and machine learning in particular, that could potentially have an impact on intellectual property law. As a background paper, it provides the technological basis for the Group’s ongoing research relating thereto. The current version summarises insights gained from background literature research, interviews with practitioners and a workshop conducted in June 2019 in which experts in the field of artificial intelligence participated. - Available at SSRN
Stellungnahmen
Revisiting the Framework for Compulsory Licensing of Patents in the European Union, 2023, 27
- Within the scope of its initiative on “Compulsory Licensing in the EU”, the European Commission launched a call for evidence on 1 April 2022 and a public consultation on 7 July 2022 with the aim of gathering views from stakeholders. The objective of this initiative is to explore the possibility of revising the framework for compulsory licensing in the EU to make it more “adequately prepared and coordinated to tackle future crises”. The authors of this position paper welcome the Commission’s attempt to reinvigorate the public discourse on this important subject. This paper addresses selected aspects by way of a preliminary, non-exhaustive note on: the proposed reform’s scope and the grounds for a compulsory licence; the requirements of prior negotiation and licensing failure; government use; procedural matters; compulsory licences for patent applications and products; the relation with other regulations and sui generis regimes (i.e. trade secret protection, regulatory data protection, and supplementary protection certificates); the concept of adequate remuneration; compulsory licences for European patents with unitary effect; and the exhaustion of products placed on the market under a compulsory licence.
- Opinion published as Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 23-07
Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors? A Position Statement of 7 September 2021 in View of the Evolving Case-Law Worldwide, 2021, 11
Covid-19 and the Role of Intellectual Property - Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 7 May 2021, 2021, 11
- In this Statement, the authors take a position on the waiver of intellectual property (IP) protection currently being considered by the members of the World Trade Organisation. The waiver was initiated by India and South Africa as a measure to enable rapid access to affordable medical products that are necessary to combat Covid-19. The initiative gained momentum after the US decided to support it. The authors do not consider this path to be expedient. The Statement presents factual and legal arguments why a comprehensive waiver of IP protection is unlikely to be a necessary and suitable measure towards the pursued objective. Overall, it argues that IP rights may so far have played an enabling and facilitating rather than hindering role in overcoming Covid-19. The global community might not be better off if IP rights are waived, neither during nor after the pandemic. There are more efficient and direct ways to supply developing countries with vaccines quickly – if the industrialised countries are willing to do their share.
- 2021_05_25_Position_statement_Covid_IP_waiver.pdf
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 21-13
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Law - Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 9 April 2021 on the Current Debate, 2021, 26
- This Position Statement presents a broad overview of issues arising at the intersection of AI and IP law based on the work of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition research group on Regulation of the Digital Economy. While the analysis is approached mainly from a perspective de lege lata, it also identifies questions which require further reflection de lege ferenda supported by in-depth interdisciplinary research. The scope is confined to substantive European IP law, in particular, as regards copyright, patents, designs, databases and trade secrets. Specific AI-related issues are mapped out around the core questions of IP law, namely, the eligibility for protection under the respective IP regimes, allocation of rights and the scope of protection. The structure of the analysis reflects three key components of AI: inputs required for the development of AI systems, AI as a process and the output of AI applications. Overall, it is emphasised that, while recent legal and policy discussions have mostly focused on AI-aided and AI-generated output, a more holistic view that accounts for the role of IP law across the AI innovation cycle is indispensable.
- MPI_PositionPaper__SSRN_21-10.pdf
- Also published as Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 21-10
Stellungnahme zum Diskussionsentwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Vereinfachung und Modernisierung des Patentrechts, 2020, 16
- Das Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb nimmt hiermit zum Diskussionsentwurf eines Zweiten Gesetzes zur Vereinfachung und Modernisierung des Patentrechts Stellung, der vom Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz im Januar 2020 vorgelegt wurde. Das Institut begrüßt die Initiative des Ministeriums, empfiehlt im Hinblick auf die Beschränkung des patentrechtlichen Unterlassungsanspruchs und die Stärkung des Schutzes von Geschäftsgeheimnissen in Patentstreitsachen jedoch gewisse Präzisierungen.
Mit Blick auf die Beschränkung des Unterlassungsanspruchs nach Maßgabe des Grundsatzes der Verhältnismäßigkeit wird vorgeschlagen, die Verhältnismäßigkeitsprüfung nicht auf einen Anwendungsfall der Gebote von Treu und Glauben zu reduzieren, sondern im Sinne der ratio legis des Patentrechts zu verstehen; insoweit als Maßnahme zur Verhinderung dysfunktionaler Effekte des Ausschließlichkeitsrecht bzw. des damit verbundenen Unterlassungsanspruchs. Zur Veranschaulichung des Ansatzes wird auf die Fallgruppen der komplexen Produkte, der Patentverwerter und der standardessenziellen Patente Bezug genommen, ohne sie jedoch im Detail durchzuprüfen. Mit Blick auf die im Rahmen der Verhältnismäßigkeitsprüfung vorzunehmende Interessenabwägung wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Interessen des Patentinhabers gegenüber jenen des Verletzers keinen grundsätzlichen Vorrang genießen. Darüber hinaus sind bei der Abwägung nicht nur die Interessen der Streitparteien, sondern auch jene Dritter, insbesondere das öffentliche Interesse, zu berücksichtigen.
Mit Blick auf den Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen in Patentstreitsachen verweist die Stellungnahme auf Unzulänglichkeiten des Verfahrens in Geschäftsgeheimnisstreitsachen, die durch die angedachte Anwendung der entsprechenden Vorschriften auf das Patentstreitverfahren übertragen werden. Hingewiesen wird auch auf eine mögliche Regelungslücke in Bezug auf das "Düsseldorfer Verfahren", die von Patentinhabern für sog. "fishing expeditions" ausgenutzt werden könnte. - This position paper of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition provides comments on the amendments proposed by the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection in its discussion draft of January 2020 on the modernization and simplification of the German Patent Act. While the Institute generally welcomes the initiative, the paper offers some suggestions aimed at increasing precision in the areas of first, the concept and the implementation of the proportionality test for granting injunctive relief, and, second, the need for enhanced protection of trade secrets in patent disputes.
With regard to the proportionality assessment, the Institute suggests that, rather than reducing it to an application of the principle of good faith, the concept of proportionality should be interpreted and applied in light of the ratio legis of patent protection with a view to preventing dysfunctional effects potentially resulting from the exercise of the exclusive right and the associated claim to an injunction. Scenarios involving complex products, non-practicing entities and standard-essential patents are used to illustrate the approach. As regards the weighing and balancing of interests when assessing proportionality, the position paper argues that it is neither desirable nor appropriate to prioritize the interests of the patentee over those of the infringer as a matter of principle. In addition, it is not only the interests of parties to the dispute, but also those of third parties, in particular the public interest, that should be taken into account.
With regard to the protection of trade secrets in patent disputes, the position paper refers to certain procedural insufficiencies of the Trade Secrets Act to adequately protect the defendant’s secrecy interests. It also points out a potential loophole in relation to the "Düsseldorf proceedings" that may facilitate "fishing expeditions". - Stellungnahme_2020-03-1final.pdf
- Also published at SSRN as Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Discussion Paper No. 16
- English version published under the title: Position Paper on the Envisaged Reform of the German Patent Act as Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 20-05
Comments of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 11 February 2020 on the Draft Issues Paper of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence, 2020, 9
Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 26 April 2017 on the European Commission's "Public consultation on Building the European Data Economy", 2017, 13
- This Position Statement responds to the Communication of 10 January 2017 by which the European Commission launched a public consultation on the future legal framework for data-driven markets that emerge in the course of the current digitization of industrial production and the advent of smart products in which sensors are embedded. In particular, the Position Statement comments the Commission’s ideas on a possible future data producer’s right as a means of promoting access to data. While the Max Plank Institute agrees that there are indeed instances where there is a need to “unlock data”, it rejects a data producer’s right. Rather, the Institute recommends considering more targeted data access rights that would specifically react to situations in which a manufacturer of smart products would otherwise try to reserve related markets for itself. The Max Planck Institute thereby takes inspiration from the data portability right that has already been implemented as part of the Basic Data Protection Regulation. Moreover, general principles on the design of data access regimes are developed. In sum, the Max Planck Institute favours a sector-specific approach to the introduction of a general data access right or a generally applicable data access regime. Sector-specific rules are especially needed for answering more concrete questions such as regarding the person entitled to claim access or the one of whether a data holder should be remunerated for granting access to data.
- MPI_Statement_Public_consultation_on_Building_the_EU_Data_Eco_28042017 Copy.pdf
- Chinese Translation of the Position Statement
- Also published as: Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 17-08
Andere Veröffentlichungen, Presseartikel, Interviews
Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 6 February 2024 on the Commission's Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Standard Essential Patents, GRUR Int 73, 7 (2024), 647 - 665 (
- The Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is a research institute within the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The Institute is committed to fundamental legal and economic research on processes of innovation and competition and their regulation. Its research focus is on the incentives, determinants and implications of innovation. The Institute informs and guides legal and economic discourse on an impartial basis. It hereby presents its position on the European Commission’s proposal of 27 April 2023 for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on standard essential patents and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1001.
Unpacking AI and Patents with Peter Slowinski: Who's Really Inventing - Human or Machine?, MondAI bAIgel Bytes: Legal Tech & AI Insights with host Michał Jackowski 2023.
CRISPR/Cas Technology and Innovation: Mapping Patent Law Issues (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 22-06), 2022, 49
- The paper provides a systematic overview of issues arising at the interface between CRISPR/Cas technology and patent law. In particular, it examines aspects related to the patentability of CRISPR/Cas-based methods of genome editing, on the one hand, and access to patented technologies, in view of the expanding CRISPR patent landscape, on the other hand. On the whole, our findings show that the case of CRISPR/Cas technology is prototypical of the policy dilemma in patent law as to how to balance economic incentives of multiple innovators in a cumulative innovation setting. The reviewed technical, legal and economic factors suggest the preconditions for technology underutilisation. While this paper presents the results of the exploratory phase of research, it sets a framework for the further, more targeted interdisciplinary examination of the identified issues.
- Available at SSRN
Modernizing German Patent Law: Toward an Explicit Obligation for Proportionality Control of Injunctions?, Oxford Business Law Blog 2020 12.06.2020 (
Podcasts
Unpacking AI and Patents with Peter Slowinski: Who's Really Inventing - Human or Machine?
MondAI bAIgel Bytes: Legal Tech & AI Insights
Podcast mit Gastgeber Michał Jackowski
Interviews
Argumente gegen ein Dateneigentum, Radio-Interview, mdr-Aktuell, 26. Juli 2017
Vorträge
7. November 2024
AI, Creativity and Intellectual Property
Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "Legal Challenges of Disruptive Technologies" an der Kozminski University
Ort: Warschau, Polen
11. Oktober 2024
Patents and access to crucial technologies
Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "At the crossroads of patent law and sustainability: current research perspectives" an der Université du Luxembourg
Ort: Luxemburg, Luxemburg
3. Oktober 2024
Regulation in times of fast development - the road to the AI Act
Eröffnungsvortrag im Rahmen der Online-Tagung "AI Act i bieżące zagadnienia prawne związane ze sztuczną inteligencją" (AI Act und aktuelle Rechtsfragen im Zusammenhang mit künstlicher Intelligenz) der polnischen Vereinigung für das Recht neuer Technologien (Stowarzyszenie Prawa Nowych Technologii)
Ort: Warschau, Polen
18. September 2024
KI – Implikationen für den patentrechtlichen Prüfmaßstab
Vortrag im Rahmen des IP Day 2024 an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Ort: Wien, Österreich
3. Juli 2024
Patent Law and Climate Change – Achieving Access to Vital Technologies
Vortrag im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Ort: Rom, Italien
14. Juni 2024
Schlüsseltechnologien & Zugangsrechte
Vortrag im Rahmen der Carl Heymanns Patenttage 2024 »Nachhaltigkeit & Innovation« an der Universität Osnabrück (gemeinsam mit Matthias Lamping)
Ort: Osnabrück, Deutschland
22. März 2024
Inter- and Intra-Disciplinarity in Legal Research and Teaching
Vortrag im Rahmen des International Symposium for Reto M. Hilty "Creation – Innovation – Markets"
Ort: Buenos Aires, Argentinien
4. Dezember 2023
How Should Standard-Essential Patents (SEP) be Regulated in Europe?
Onlineteilnahme mit Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops zu standardessenziellen Patenten des IPDR University Centre an der Hanken School of Economics
Ort: Helsinki, Finland
25. November 2023
The person skilled in the art of using AI
Vortrag im Rahmen der Cyberspace Conference 2023, Masaryk Universität Brno
Ort: Brünn, Tschechische Republik
8. November 2023
Key Developments in the European IP Landscape
Eröffnungspanel der Tagung "Auto IP Europe 2023"
Ort: München, Deutschland
12. September 2023
Old Issues with new urgency - Patent Law and Climate Change
Vortrag im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association
Ort: Krakau, Polen
7. September 2023
Covenants not to sue and SEP enforcement in the value chain
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Emerging Isssues in licensing and enforcement of SEPs" des Rechtsinstituts der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Adam Mickiewicz Universität in Pozen
Ort: Warschau, Polen
11. Juli 2023
Criminal Sanctions and Civil Law Remedies
Vortrag im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)
Ort: Tokio, Japan
22. Juni 2023
The Unitary Patent Court
Vortrag im Rahmen der Jones Day Client Conference 2023
Ort: Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
29. November 2019
Rethinking Software Protection
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property"
Ort: Singapur, Singapur
17. Oktober 2019
Trade Secrets in Judicial and Mediation Procedures – The tension between openness and secrecy
Vortrag am Rechtsinstitut der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Ort: Warschau, Polen
8. Oktober 2018
Artificial intelligence, novelty and inventive step. What role does AI play in patent law today?
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Rethinking Patent Law as an Incentive to Innovation" aus Anlass des 100jährigen Jubiläums des polnischen Patentamtes
Ort: Warschau, Polen
11. März 2018
Geistiges Eigentum - Treiber oder Bremsklotz von Innovation?
Vortrag bei der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, Theodor-Heuss-Akademie
Ort: Gummersbach, Deutschland
12. Februar 2018
Do we need a new IP-regime in the new data driven economy?
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, and Intellectual Property Law - Towards a New Era in Socio-Economic Life and Daily Living of Human Being", Ankara University Research and Application Center on Intellectual and Industrial Rights (FISAUM)
Ort: Ankara, Türkei
10. November 2017
Fields of Self-Regulation and Codes of Conduct
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "SEPs, SSO and FRAND - Fostering Innovation in Interconnectivity: Asian and Global Perspectives", Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, Singapore Management University
Ort: Singapur
9. November 2017
The Legal Nature of FRAND-declaration - EU-Perspective
Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "SEPs, SSO and FRAND - Fostering Innovation in Interconnectivity: Asian and Global Perspectives", Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, Singapore Management University
Ort: Singapur
12. November 2015
Standard Essential Patents - Beyond Competition Law
Vortrag im Rahmen des International Symposium on Legal Reforms in Standard Essential, Patents, Intellectual Property Law Center, School of Law Tsinghua University
Ort: Peking, China
14. Oktober 2015
The New European Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court
Vortrag an der University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Ort: Tucson, Arizona, USA
5. November 2014
The New European Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court
Ort: Palo Alto, USA
3. November 2014
The New European Unified Patent Court
Ort: Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA
13. April 2013
Still in Balance? - Perspectives on the Present State and Future Development of IP Enforcement
9th Inter-University Graduate Student Conference
Ort: Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, USA
18. Mai 2012
Patent Mediation in Germany - Results From the First Empirical Study
International Empirical Research Forum
Ort: Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA
14. April 2012
Evaluation of Patent Mediation
8th Inter-University Graduate Student Conference
Ort: Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, USA
27. Mai 2010
Enforcing Quality - New Ways of Strengthening the IP-Systems in Europe
3rd WIPO-Seminar on Intellectual Property and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Ort: Genf, Schweiz
Lehrveranstaltungen
31. Oktober 2024
Legal Issues of IP Contracts for Entrepreneurs
Gastvorlesung auf Einladung von Professor Liudmyla Petrenko
Ort: Kyiv National Economic University, Kiew, Ukraine (online)
9. April 2024
Artificial Intelligence & Copyright Software Protection
Gastvorlesung am Center for International Intellectual Property Studies/Centre d'études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle (CEIPI) der Université de Strasbourg
Ort: Straßburg, Frankreich (online)
Akademisches Jahr 2023/2024
Colloquium: Regulation of the Life Sciences
Kolloquium für LL.M.-Studierende am Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC)
Ort: München, Deutschland
16. Januar 2024
Legal research in the area of artificial intelligence – questions, challenges and approaches from the perspective of IP law
Gastvorlesung an der Adam Mickiewicz Universität
Ort: Poznan, Polen
2. November 2023
Legal Issues of Contracts for Entrepreneurs
Gastvorlesung auf Einladung von Professor Liudmyla Petrenko
Ort: Kyiv National Economic University, Kiew, Ukraine (online)
26. Oktober 2020
When Courts Compete: The Use of Anti-suit Injunctions and Anti-anti-suit Injunctions
Gastdozent im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Global Litigation“ von Frau Professor Deborah Hensler
Ort: Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA (online)
20./21. Juli 2017
IP and ADR - Policy Considerations and Practice Issues
Vorlesung für LL.M.-Studenten am Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC)
Ort: München, Deutschland
2. November 2016
Global Patent Litigation
Gastdozent im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Global Litigation“ von Frau Professor Deborah Hensler
Ort: Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA