Imagination and creation both were and still are what GEISTWERT is all about: At first, we started out at different law firms advising clients on how to realize and safeguard their imaginations and creations of all sorts. Back then, each of us was granted plenty of opportunities to work […]
GEISTWERT-Partner Juliane Messner gave a presentation to interested LL.M. candidates at the Postgraduate Course for Information and Media Law at the University of Vienna [Link] on June 20: Juliane introduced the students to the topic “Start-ups plus Merger & Acquisition in the IP/IT environment”. The ongoing and lively discussion […]
Wanna hear about some of the highlight cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union in trademark matters in 2020?
Then listen to the MARQUES Podcast feat. Marianne Hollands and Constantin Kletzer
https://www.marques.org/podcast/ or on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6j5HoGSdnxw1B7AV5pc1Ot
Enjoy!
We are flattered and proud of our Geistwert baby #nearlysevenyears to be recognized by #wtr1000.
With three of our partners being ranked in gold tier 🙂
https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/directories/wtr1000/rankings/austria
“A go-to for any and all trademark matters, GEISTWERT changed the face of the Austrian legal landscape when it was set up. Its […]
In a nutshell:
What do I need to do?
Good news: All EU trademarks and Community Designs will be cloned in the UK. You will not have to act unless…
you have pending trademark or design application through 31.12.2020. If so, you will need to consider whether to re-file in […]
An Overview by Juliane Messner / Max W. Mosing
80 pages on the Austrian Data Protection Law (GDPR and national DSG et al) in English [Download].
On September 22, 2020, the Austrian Supreme Court, in its decision 4Ob135/20m confirmed that the fact that a medical device is correctly marked CE gives rise to assuming that the device meets the requirements of the law. Whether this (legal) assumption can be rebutted in the Unfair Competition proceedings […]
A request for information according to § 18 para. 4 ECG is – contrary to the wording of the provision – not only possible against host providers according to § 16 ECG, but analogously also against access providers according to § 13 ECG. The Austrian Supreme Court saw a […]
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 […]
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 […]