Germany

Norms & Regulation

German Supreme Court Sets High Bar for Abstract Color Trademarks

The German Supreme Court has clarified the stringent requirements for securing trademark protection for abstract color marks based on acquired distinctiveness. This ruling emphasizes the difficulty for businesses to establish that a color alone functions as a source indicator rather than merely a decorative element, impacting intellectual property strategies for brand identity.

Letizia Giugliano

Events

Taiwan Innotech Expo 2019, between innovation and originality

Last year, 416 inventors, including TWOGETHER BIKES from Germany, were awarded the prize. Technology, innovation and future sustainable development, these are the three main themes that will be addressed during the next edition of the Taiwan Innotech Expo 2019 (TIE), exhibition of inventions and…

Ilaria Cuomo

News

“It’s innovation, beauty! And you can’t do anything about it! “

One could paraphrase thus the famous sentence of the film of 1952 “The last threat” of Richard Brooks, where a dapper Humphrey Bogart responded to its editor with the sound of the presses at full speed. In theautomotive sector The changes have been triggered, but they could have negative…

Letizia Giugliano