Understand there is a pending bill in front of German parliment which would, among other things ---

<To reduce the current huge backlog of pending nullification appeal cases ("Nichtigkeitsberufungen"), the German Federal Supreme Court is set to be changed from an instance fully revising factual and legal points to an instance competent substantially only for legal points. Hence, in future there will be only a single instance where facts and evidence can be presented, the Federal Patents Court ("Bundespatentgericht"). The court system will simply be cut back by eliminating the option of presenting fresh facts and evidence during appeal in patent nullification cases;>

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We need to follow that bill closely. Opty