Last week (July 15, 2025), we were promised an important patent for an app developed by one of our clients. The app allows users to...

Geographical indications (GI) protect the names of products that originate in specific geographical areas and whose characteristics and/or reputation are attributable to their production in...

Inventions in the field of defence and armaments technology, nuclear technology and secret communication may contain state secrets. For example the invention could contain military...

DENIC is the administrative centre for .de domains and is responsible for their registration. If a domain name infringes a trademark, the domain holder is...

Following the entry into force of a new Design Directive and an Amending Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on December 8, 2024,...

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has ruled: Birkenstock’s famous sandals do not enjoy copyright protection. Other suppliers are allowed to sell similar models. What...

This year’s symposium focused on the 2019 amendment to trade mark law and its impact on practice. High-calibre speakers, including Katharina Mirbt and Monika Schwarz,...

A major adjustment within the framework of the new Unitary patent is the reorganisation of the double protection prohibition. Since 1 June 2023, it has...

In 2023, applications for inventions at the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) increased significantly. Compared to the previous year, the GPTO recorded a 3.4...

Groundbreaking inventions, such as the expanding dowel or the airbag, originate from imaginative inventors. Such inventions are usually the intellectual achievements of so-called “independent inventors”...

Riegele, a well-known Swabian brewery based in Augsburg, owns the trade mark rights to SPEZI. The Paulaner brewery, a long-established Munich brewery with an annual...

Twenty-four EU Member States have signed the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA). Initially, the UPCA will enter into force in the seventeen states...