Protecting Craft and Industrial Products: The EU’s New Geographical Indication (GI) Framework Effective December 2025It may not seem obvious, but “Parma ham“ and “Champagne” share several important similarities.…

Picture this: on a sunny morning, you peek into your mailbox (the real one, not your emails) and find a pretty envelope. As you reach for it with childish excitement, you ask yourself who had the lovely idea to…

New Name, Legal CheckRebranding and Trademark Law – What You Need to Know When Changing Your Brand NameRebranding can be an exciting yet risky move for any business. Whether you are modernizing your image, merging…

Have you ever posted a video of yourself performing a little dance on TikTok? Or uploaded photos of your latest vacation on a sun-bathed island on Instagram? There is a good chance that you did, since more than 5…

IP Right Holders do betterFindings of the “Intellectual Property Rights and Firm Performance in the European Union” firm-level analysis report by the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) and the EPO…

Few are those nowadays who have not heard of the wonders of machine learning technologies. Names such as “ChatGPT”, “DeepSeek” or “Midjourney” have become known to virtually everybody and, for many, are now part…

Christmas is only a few weeks away! Now is the time for including gifts for your loved ones to your shopping lists. But as you browse through busy stores or infinite lists of products online looking for bargains,…

Understanding Trademark Law Through the Lens of Halloween: A Spooky GuideHalloween, with its pumpkins, costumes, and haunted houses, is one of the most exciting and creative times of the year. But behind the…

State-of-the-art IP management in the year 2024 requires in-depth expertise and an outstanding cloud- and AI-based software. As an interdisciplinary team of lawyers and patent attorneys as well as computer…

The Olympic Games 2024 are underway! However, although the merriment surrounding the event invites to light-heartedness, one should be careful not to be carried away when it comes to the use of the so-called…

Geographical Indications (GIs) and the upcoming changes to the EU system starting in December 2025The protection system of geographical indications (GIs) in the European Union is set to undergo changes as two new…

LexDellmeier, the creative trademark, design, copyright and licensing law experts from Munich, Germany, and its team members would like to extend to all clients, colleagues and IP friends from around the world a…

The EUIPO is establishing an important feature, a new initiative that they call “a ground-breaking step in global supply chain product authentication”: “EBSI-ELSA”.…

Be honest - Have you ever bought counterfeit goods or illegally consumed digital content?On 12 June 2023, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published an interesting article on counterfeits…

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Rims and wheels have been under discussion regarding design protection for many years.…

Imagine you are the owner of a registered trademark and you have invested significant amounts of money into establishing your trademark and related product(s) in the market. Would it not be very annoying to see…

In the digital world of social media platforms – you come across NFTs everywhere. It has even become Collins English Dictionary´s word of the year in 2021. But do you actually know what those three letters truly…

The question, whether two stripes on the side of a shoe have a distinctive character or can lead to the invalidity of a trademark was subjected in the case of 4 May 2022. But how did the European General Court…

Every year on the 26 April, we celebrate the World Intellectual Property Day to draw attention to the important role of intellectual property rights (IP). This year, the official theme is “IP and Youth: Innovating…