Peter Meyer is a partner at Simmons & Simmons. He has specialised in intellectual property law and competition law matters for more than 20 years. His expertise covers all contentious and non-contentious issues of intellectual property and antitrust law. Peter’s particular focus is on international and national patent litigation, and advising on antitrust law questions at the interface with IP rights. Peter’s clients are mainly from the life sciences and TMT sectors. They include a major European life sciences company, a US medical device manufacturer as well as Asian and US electronics, telecom and IT companies. The German finance magazine ’Handelsblatt’ has awarded Peter Meyer as one of the Best Lawyer in 2020 in the field of intellectual property. Chambers notes that his strategic and insightful advice is particularly appreciated. JUVE says that he “has long been traded as an insider tip among the Düsseldorf patent lawyers”. Legal 500 describes him as “competent, fast, professional and very strategic thinking”
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On 24 April 2018, the European Commission (Commission) fined Altice NV (Altice) €124.5m for breaching both Article 4(1) and 7(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (the EU Merger Regulation or EUMR). Article 4(1) EUMR contains the “notification requirement” under which relevant (...)
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A strict approach to applying the principles established in Huawei/ZTE, in particular as regards the prompt provision of security and a statement of account of past use, resulted in the defendant losing the right to raise a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) defence. In detail (...)
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The German courts are grappling with the legality of clauses intended to agree liquidated damages where one of the parties is involved in a cartel. The Regional Court of Potsdam has recently found a clause in the procurement terms of a German municipality which requires liquidated damages of (...)
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A German appeal court has halted a Federal Cartel Office (FCO) decision to unwind a 17 year old joint venture until the outcome of an appeal against the decision is known. In its interim decision, the court took the opportunity to : set out the requirements under German law for the FCO to find (...)
