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Patent litigation of GEISTWERT in the media

By Rainer Schultes | October 14th, 2018 |

Patent litigations rarely attract the interest of the media, but it happens.

Renowned Bloomberg News report: Glock battles Sig Sauer 

 

GEISTWERT’s Austrian Part for GDPR- EXPERT.COM is updated

By Max W. Mosing, Juliane Messner | September 7th, 2018 |

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 Kletzer talked about Liability of Internet Intermediaries at the ECTA Annual Conference in Athens.

By Constantin Kletzer | June 18th, 2018 |

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 Austrian magazine’s TREND Ranking 2018 is out!

April 27th, 2018 |

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 […]

What others say about GEISTWERT….

April 9th, 2018 |

We are delighted and proud of the following awards plus market-feedback that GEISTWERT recently received – our entire awards are listed here: Link

 

Chambers Europe 2018 – Intellectual Property:

What the team is known for:  IP boutique rapidly establishing itself as a key team in the market. Especially strong in IT-related […]

ITIPLG.eu: International Symposium on GDPR on March 24 & GDPR-expert.com

By Max W. Mosing, Juliane Messner, Alexander Schnider | March 24th, 2017 |

During the ITIPLG.eu Spring Meeting, GEISTWERT has hosted the “International Symposium on National Issues of Implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)” in the NOVOMATIC Forum and nearly 80 participants attended upon their corresponding personal invitations. Data protection officers and legal heads of, inter alia, IBM, A1 Telekom, Kapsch […]

Alexander Schnider interviewed by Bloomberg BNA

By Alexander Schnider | March 21st, 2017 |

On 20 March 2017, Bloomberg BNA published an article on the Austrian Supreme Court’s ruling ordering Amazon to pay the Austrian Copyright Levy on hard disks together with a respective interview of GEISTWERT partner Alexander Schnider.

 

 

Hacking: Max Mosing live in TV

March 21st, 2017 |

Hacking: GEISTWERT partner Max Mosing talks live in the Austrian TV about future obligations of providers according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Download: link

Juliane Messner on TV

March 16th, 2017 |

Fabulous report on GEISTWERT partner Juliane Messner in the economic TV series TREND of the Italian public TV RAI (link).

Fake Le Corbusier LC2 chairs in a hotel lobby

By Rainer Schultes | February 27th, 2017 |

GEISTWERT blogged for Kluwer’s Copyright blog :

Placing a copyright-infringing armchair in a hotel lobby does not qualify as “distribution”, but displaying a photo of it on the hotel’s website does qualify as “making available” under copyright law.  This is the outcome of a recent Austrian Supreme Court judgment, notable […]