The Eurozone banking and sovereign debt crisis has brought the fragility of European monetary union into sharp focus and exposed the lack of effective instruments at the European level to maintain financial stability. The policy responses of the European and national institutions included an...

The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system which is currently existing in Germany. To answer this question three essential characteristics of the current German patent litigation system are presented, i.e. the economic...

Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional...