National sovereignty describes, how domestic courts deal with foreign courts‘ ASIs barring parties in a patent litigation case from bringing suit before said domestic courts. In a world with rule of law under pressure or even on the retreat (look around!), the national sovereignty angle cannot be completely left aside, but it shall not be our dominating topic.

Patent litigation doctrine describes the very practical questions that need to be answered when dealing with ASIs on an operational level, i. e. in the law of civil procedure and in patent law. These questions will be of interest to all patent litigators in our audience and therefore shall be the focus of this year’s conference.

Here are some of the questions the judges speaking will answer:

• How did cases look, in which ASIs where claimed before your court or in which you were confronted with foreign courts‘ ASIs?
• Does your jurisdiction’s law know a set of uniform rules for issuing an ASI?
• Must foreign infringement proceedings already have been initiated before claiming that an ASI was admissible? Or must the ASI perhaps even come first so as to keep open a time window?
• Are an ASI’s legal consequences restricted to proceedings already pending or to all potential proceedings?
• Who is bound – just the parties to the litigation or also members of their respective groups of companies?
• What about Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions (AASIs)?
• Are there or should there be Anti-Enforcement Injunctions (AEIS)?