European Union Trademarks - Great Britain, United Kingdom, England, Ireland According to a notice of the European Commission (Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) of 22 January 2018, EU trade marks and EU designs (“registered Community designs”) registered before the withdrawal date, (= before 30.3.2019), will continue to be valid in the remaining [...]

Necessary steps - Great Britain, United Kingdom, England, Ireland The impact of a hard Brexit is described in the Notice of the EU Commission (Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) of 22.1.2018: The United Kingdom will become a third country from the date of its departure (30.3.2019), and all EU trademarks and designs [...]

New: Motion and Multimedia mark These are animated logos - often known as GIFs. Such can now be registered as trademarks. Motion marks consist of a movement or a change in the position of a trademark element. Multimedia marks combine image and sound. Such can now also be registered in Austria and not only in [...]

At the Gibraltar Conference of Legal Netlink Alliance (http://www.legalnetlink.net/), one of the largest international associations of independent law firms, Dr. Straberger gave a lecture in which the audience was given not only an overview of the most important rulings of the European Court of Justice, but also about what happened in the field of commercial [...]