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TOP Rankings in Chambers and WTR 1000

February 18th, 2020 |

The newest rankings of Chambers for Intellectual Property and of WTR 1000 for Trademark law came out. GEISTWERT again amount the best law firms. A great thank you to all our referees, which push us forward with their feedback.

GEISTWERT is IP Firm of the Year 2020

By Constantin Kletzer, Alexander Schnider, Juliane Messner, Max W. Mosing, Rainer Schultes | February 3rd, 2020 |

The renown legal magazines IAM and WTR hosted the Global IP Awards, recognising the outstanding achievements of patent and trademark attorneys and law firms from over 50 countries.

The winners of the Global IP Awards 2020 were honoured at a gala dinner attended by 260 people last night in […]

Supreme Court: Circumventing the withdrawal right regarding the digital toll badge (DiVi) is unfair competition plus infringement of DiVi marks

By Juliane Messner, Max W. Mosing, Alexander Schnider | January 15th, 2020 |

In its preliminary
injunction issued in favor of GEISTWERT’s client ASFINAG against German website-operators,
the Austrian
Supreme Court (OGH 19 December 2019, 4 Ob 96/19z – link, available in German
only) held that the
Defendants’ business model desiring to exclude the consumers’ withdrawal right
when purchasing digital toll badges (digital vignette, respectively a digital
vignette for […]

German Balsamico?

By Rainer Schultes | December 6th, 2019 |

The
protection of the name ‘Aceto Balsamico di Modena’ does not extend to the use
of the non-geographical terms of that name such as ‘aceto’ and ‘balsamico’

The name
‘Aceto Balsamico di Modena (PGI)’ (balsamic vinegar from Modena, Italy) has
been registered since 2009 in the register of protected designations of origin
(‘PDO’) and […]

Business and Trade Secrets in Life Sciences

By Juliane Messner, Rainer Schultes | October 26th, 2019 |

On October 24, GEISTWERT partner Juliane Messner and Rainer Schultes held a seminar on Business and Trade Secrets in Life Sciences at the Academy of the Association of Pharmaceutcial Companies Pharmig. Of particular interest were the intersections and synergies between Business Secrets on the one hand and patent protection […]

Save the date: GEISTWERT’s 5th anniversary party on November 8, 2019, in Vienna

August 27th, 2019 |

Invitation with further details will follow … be prepared!

No protection of trade dress „MAGNUM DOUBLE“

By Rainer Schultes | July 29th, 2019 |

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 […]

GEISTWERT Standard forms on ipag.at

June 5th, 2019 |

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 […]

3 attorneys and GEISTWERT as such among Austria’s TOP lawyers

May 19th, 2019 |

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 […]

LEGAL 500 ranked GEISTWERT in Top Tier in IP

April 10th, 2019 |

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, […]