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«Patents hinder the spreading of climatechange mitigating technologies, don’t they?» is a question I recently heard. Here are my thoughts on the topic.

A trademark is weakened not only by the use of identical and confusingly similar marks, but also by the registration of such marks. Many owners of registered trademarks have never heard of trademark monitoring. Why should they? The trademark is registered and everything seems fine.

The Members of the EU Parliament have agreed to adapt the rules for NGT plants (New Genomic Techniques, i.e. plants which have been obtained by genetic engineering tools, such as CRISPR/Cas). In their proposal, the MEPs aim to introduce a complete exclusion from patentability for all NGT plants. The intention behind seems to be to avoid legal uncertainties and dependencies for farmers and breeders.

In preparation for a lecture on carbon capture at the ETH this spring semester, I took the opportunity to take a closer look at the new CPC patent class Y02C, which is dedicated to capture and storage of greenhouse gases. Here are some key findings:

Die EU hat am 13. Dezember 2022 ihren Entwurf für den Angemessenheitsbeschluss zum Datenschutzniveau der USA veröffentlicht. Adrian Fischbacher beleuchtet diese Meldung.

Is a license required for CRISPR gene editing? If yes, how do I get one? In this article, some of the challenges in licensing CRISPR gene editing are discussed.

Im fünften Beitrag der Serie zum revidierten Schweizer Datenschutzgesetz geht Adrian Fischbacher auf die Bearbeitung von Daten durch Auftragnehmer ein, welche vertraglich speziell geregelt werden sollte.

The European Commission and the United States released a joint statement, that an agreement was reached in principle for a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. Such a framework would allow data transfers from the EU to the US. Adrian Fischbacher comments on this message.

Im vierten Beitrag der Serie zum revidierten Schweizer Datenschutzgesetz geht Adrian Fischbacher auf das Verzeichnis der Datenbearbeitungen ein, welches Unternehmen ab 250 Mitarbeitern nach der Revision führen müssen.

Im dritten Beitrag der Serie zum revidierten Schweizer Datenschutzgesetz geht Adrian Fischbacher auf die Informationspflichten ein, die beim Bearbeiten von Personendaten beachtet werden müssen.