‘Heksenkaas’ is a spreadable dip with cream cheese and fresh herbs, which was created in 2007 by a Dutch retailer of vegetables and fresh produce. The intellectual property rights in that product were transferred by the retailer to the current rightholder, Levola, a company governed by Dutch law.
Since January […]
Good news for the IP community: Gordian Hasselblatt’s (Editor) two commentaries will be published by Beck – Hart – Nomos in its 2nd edition next week!
GEISTWERT’s Max Mosing is author of chapters in both Article-by-Article commentaries in the English language to the
European Union Trade Mark Regulation; and
Community Design Regulation (EC) […]
At the „XBorder 18“ event organized by GEISTWERT with a view to „Cross-Border Mail-Order Business in Practice and Law”, the associations from Germany, Switzerland and Austria present the scene’s current trends. Furthermore, shopping.at’s management present their platform and the legal experts from MLL – Meyerlustenberger Lachenal (Switzerland), SSW Schneider Schiffer […]
Patent litigations rarely attract the interest of the media, but it happens.
Renowned Bloomberg News report: Glock battles Sig Sauer
When Swiss, Germans and Austrians discuss legal aspects of cross-border online sales, the specialists from MLL – Meyerlustenberger Lachenal (Switzerland), SSW Schneider Schiffer Weihermüller (Germany), and GEISTWERT (Austria), cannot be far away. Since the “XBorder” event dealing with with cross-border e-commerce law took place for the 9th time in Zurich already […]
GEISTWERT provided the Austrian input for GDPR-EXPERT.COM (Link), a unique and mighty tool to analyze the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The database is provided by the IT IP Law Group Europe (Link). For each provision of the GDPR, we will show you :
the corresponding provision in the […]
Constantin is a member of the Internet Committee of ECTA, the European Community Trademark Association. In this capacity he joined a panel on “Hot Topics in Anti-Counterfeiting, Goods in Transit and Contributory Infringement”. The session was moderated by Olivier Vrins, Altius, Belgium. His co-speaker Luigi Sansone, Salomone Sansone, Malta, […]
The data protection authority may act both against the administrator and against Facebook subsidiary
The German Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein offers educational services inter alia by means of a fan page hosted on Facebook.
Administrators of fan pages, such as Wirtschaftsakademie, can obtain anonymous statistical data on visitors to the fan pages via […]
Louboutin shoes for women are known for their outer sole being always red. Louboutin registered that trade mark for ‘footwear’ and described it as consisting ‘of the colour red (Pantone 18 1663TP) applied to the sole of a shoe as shown (the contour of the shoe is not part […]
We are proud and honored to be included in this year’s TREND Ranking as follows:
“GEISTWERT, the young Vienna law firm is one of the winners of this year’s trend-rankings.”
“The GEISTWERT-mobile is unstoppable. Juliane Messner, Alexander Schnider, and Constantin Kletzer (second row), Max Mosing as well as Rainer Schultes have […]