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André Nickel
Partner
Grünecker
André Nickel is a partner at Grünecker. He has represented clients in Europe and Germany as a patent attorney in prosecution, litigation and many EPO opposition proceedings, mainly in the software, computing and communications field. A large number of the patents he has worked on have corresponding U.S. family members. He drafts applications for later prosecution and enforcement in the U.S. and a range of other core jurisdictions worldwide and advises clients on the subtle and sometimes not so subtle differences between European law and practice and the U.S. perspective.
Recent Articles by André Nickel
The impact of the long-awaited launch of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is hard to overstate. While litigators and patent portfolio managers are immediately feeling the impact in Europe, surprisingly, they should also expect an impact on information disclosure statement (IDS) strategy for U.S. patent applications. To understand the impact, this article provides a background on how the European Patent Office (EPO) and UPC consider earlier national rights, how patent applicants can address earlier national rights to prevent invalidation at the UPC, how earlier national rights identified in a European patent application can affect a U.S. application and should be addressed in an IDS, and how this information can be used for monetization and litigation.