Trademark Law in Simultaneous Registration Cases

Judgment of the LG Hamburg from July 19, 2024 – Az.: 327 O 195/23   If you want to protect your trademark, you shouldn’t wait too long to register it. Otherwise, someone else might beat you to it. It can also happen that two parties register their trademark rights for a product on the same […]

Federal Court of Justice on Design Protection for Combination Products

The Federal Court of Justice strengthened design protection in so-called combination products with its judgment of March 24, 2022 (Case No.: I ZR 16/21). However, individual components are not worthy of protection. Combination products are considered protective items that, while consisting of several objects, are viewed as a single product according to general traffic perception, […]