Black Friday is generally known as the name for a sales-day in the
pre-Christmas business in the US on Friday after Thanksgiving. It is also known in
Europe for some years now – and that’s what it’s all about in the Germany case.
Because the company Super Union Holdings Ltd. from Hong […]
Invitation with further details will follow … be prepared!
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Neither the
form nor the design of the icecream MAGNUM DOUBLE enjoys protection under the
Austrian Law against Unfair competition.
The manufacturer
of the icecream MAGNUM DOUBLE sued against Gelatelli DOUBLE without success (in
the summary proceedings).
The form of
the MAGNUM DOUBLE with its three layers of chocolate was owed to technical
reasons. DOUBLE was considered
descriptive […]
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participants discussed the interaction between Trade Secrets, Data Protection,
Patents and Copyright at the first GEISTWERT-Secret breakfast on June 13 and
how to establish synergies between the different legal institutes and their
requirements.
The
Intellectual Property Agreement Guide IPAG is a project of Universities Austria
(Österreichische Universitätenkonferenz, UNIKO) and is sponsored by the
National Contact Point for Intellectual Property (ncp.ip) in the Federal
Ministry of Digital, Business and Enterprise, the Federal Ministry for
Transport, Innovation and Technology and Austria Wirtschaftsservice. The aim of
this project is to increase […]
GEISTWERT partners
Rainer Schultes, Max Mosing and Constantin Kletzer ranked in Top 10 in the
Lawyers’ Ranking of Austrian economics magazine “TREND” in the categories Unfair
Competition Law, Media and IT Law and Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents.
GEISTWERT was
recognised as the second notable new law firm of the last five years.
Thanks to all […]
The use of
figurative signs evoking the geographical area with which a protected
designation of origin (PDO) is associated may constitute an unlawful evocation
of that designation
Industrial
Quesera Cuquerella SL (‘IQC’) markets three of its cheeses using labels with an
illustration of a knight similar to the usual depictions of Don Quixote de La
Mancha, […]
For the first time, this year LEGAL 500 (www.legal500.com) ranked GEISTWERT in Tier 1 in the category “Intellectual Property” and highly ranked it in “Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT).
The evaluation text speaks for itself:
IP
“GEISTWERT’s ‘partner-only approach’ is valued by clients and considered a key strength and unique selling point, […]
GEISTWERT’s most recent post on Kluwer Copyright Blog: […]