GEISTWERT – THE FILM
Those who celebrated with us already know it: The life cartoon story of GEISTWERT’s history. For those who cold not attend, there is now:
GEISTWERT – THE FILM
No worry, no keynotes, no interviews, no speeches.
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DFL Broadcasting Tender: GEISTWERT on the Advisors’ Bench for the Austrian Part
Together with Klinkert (lead and German part) and Nater Dallafior (Swiss part), GEISTWERT (Austrian part) advised the German Football League (Deutsche Fussball Liga, “DFL”) in connection with copyright questions relating to the tender of DFL’s broadcasting rights for the seasons 2021/22 to 2024/25 for Germany, Switzerland, Austria and South […]
Free samples for pharmacist: RX no, OTC yes?
Novartis sued ratiopharm to cease and desist from distributing, to pharmacists, free samples of the medicinal product Diclo-ratiopharm-Schmerzgel.
Novartis claimed that such distribution is contrary to German Law on medicinal products which lists doctors but not pharmacists among those to whom free samples of medicinal products may be distributed. That […]
GEISTWERT @ OneTrust PrivacyConnect Online Vienna panel
GEISTWERT’s Max Mosing is invited to the OneTrust PrivacyConnect Online Vienna panel to discuss especially the following topics:
What do you see as the key issues facing privacy professional in 2020?
How do you see the global development of comprehensive data protection laws? (Especially in light of the COVID-19 […]
Austrian Supreme Court: Public national broadcaster ORF/Facebook – 4Ob36/20b.
GEISTWERT’s most recent post on Kluwer’s Copyright Blog:
First, a little bit of history. Back in 2016, a Facebook post containing an article with a photograph of the former Austrian politician Eva Glawischnig gave rise to a landmark decision against Facebook. Alongside a photo of Ms Glawischnig, she was referred […]
German Supreme Court rules on Cookie-Law – also relevant for Austria!
One of the most significant issues with regard to online marketing concerns the dissemination of targeted advertising (especially via online advertising networks), i.e. the retargeting of users beyond the advertiser’s own website, and this even applies if such targeted advertising does not rely personal data. The crucial legal question […]
Three GEISTWERT Partners again ranked in the Top 10 of Austria’s TREND Lawyers’ Ranking
In the current TREND lawyers‘ ranking (2020), three GEISTWERT partners made it into the Top 10 again. Rainer Schultes was ranked 2nd in the category (unfair) competition law, Constantin Kletzer made the 3rd place in the category trademark, copyright and patent law and Max Mosing was elected the 4th […]
We are back in Office
We are back at work again, certainly complying with all measures to be taken. And right in time our @geistwert.at face masks arrived. Some will miss home office.
Keep safe!
Intellectual Property and COVID-19
Austrian Courts serving again
The recent stop of the serving of judicial documents is reversed. The
legislator wants to avoid a backlog of work.
That’s the basis for the normalisation of IP-protection.
Hearings via
video-conference
Most of IP-litigation in Austria to a large extent is in writing because
most of it is done in interlocutory proceedings […]
NEWSFLASH: German Constitutional Court declares German Unified Patent Court (UPC) Act as invalid
The German Federal Constitutional Court has upheld
the constitutional complaint filed against the German UPC legislation. But it
has at the same time pointed the way to a future ratification. The German
Federal Constitutional Court ruled today that the “Act of Approval to the
Agreement on a Unified Patent Court” needed a two-thirds […]