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Fleuchaus & Gallo is delighted to announce that Dr. Benjamin Grau is rejoining our firm
Fleuchaus & Gallo is delighted to announce that Dr. Benjamin Grau is rejoining our firm. About 10 years ago, Ben had competed his training to be a Patent attorney with F&G and spend the recent years …
10 IP Tips for Social Media Users and Influencers
Social media. For some the parasitic mental decay of future generations, for many an integral part of everyday life—for businesses and influencers a whole new realm of possibilities. Users of platforms such as Instagram are constantly increasing. In January 2013...
OBITUARY – LEO FLEUCHAUS
Our beloved father and founder of Fleuchaus & Gallo passed away peacefully on April 28, 2021. We will miss him more than we can find words to express right now. We are feeling grief but also gratitude. Our dad’s passing was not unexpected - he was nearly 93 years...
The G1/21 – „Friends of the courts“ – Amicus Curiae
As can be quickly learned while studying the EPC for the EQE, G-Decisions have a weighty importance as case law of the EPO. The aim of these decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) is “to ensure uniform application of the law" and to clarify or...
“CANNABIS” in the spotlight as a European trademark (TM) – brands for cannabis and derived products: Valuable TM protection possible?
The different branches of cannabis industries are still relatively new and the formerly widely illegal trade with cannabis becomes more and more legalized at least for medicinal use especially across the Western nations and Latin America. As with any new and...
IP protection for AI in life science
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCE Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella word used to describe machines and computer programs that exhibit, to a certain extent, cognitive thinking and decision-making. Notable examples are neural networks which may be...
A short history of sailing seen through patents: From sinking ships to “flying insects”
Sailing has widely been associated with a romantic view of the sea and of seamanship and is commonly considered a very traditional industry, in which old enrooted technologies persist and in which innovation is often frowned upon. There is an apparent truth in it: The...
Universal approximation theorem for artificial neural networks
"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different" [J. W. Goethe] From my professional and personal experience, I cannot agree more with Goethe and I would dare to add...
“Alaaf”: Cannabis and IP
First European patent for a new drug delivery technology (DehydraTECH™ ) of Lexaria Bioscience was granted In these harsh Corona times many big public festivals had to be cancelled worldwide for good reasons, like recently the Munich Oktoberfest during the first...