Blog - Patents, Trademarks & Designs
Registering and protecting utility models
Justus Kreuels - 19. August 2024
The utility model is an industrial property right for technical inventions. It enables smaller, everyday innovations to be protected inexpensively and easily.
The new EU design law
Philipp Henrichs - 24. July 2024
In addition to strengthening design protection in the EU, the aim of the reform of EU design law is to simplify the processes for applying for and registering designs and to extend the definition of a product to include digital products and technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and 3D printing.
Artificial intelligence is not an inventor
Justus Kreuels - 5. July 2024
For an invention created with an AI, a natural person must be registered as the inventor of the patent application. The Federal Court of Justice ruled that an artificial intelligence cannot acquire any rights.
Patent drawings as part of a patent application
Justus Kreuels - 1. July 2024
When filing a patent application, drawings can also be submitted in order to illustrate and explain the invention or the product to be protected in the best possible way.
Standard-essential patents (SEP)
Justus Kreuels - 1. July 2024
In rapidly developing high-tech sectors such as telecommunications, standards are crucial for promoting innovation. They create a uniform technological basis and thus enable the compatibility of products. More about standard-essential patents ...
Trademark application at the GPTO
Justus Kreuels - 1. July 2024
A registered trademark secures the owner the exclusive right to use the trademark in connection with the goods or services offered. Among other things, this can protect against imitations by competitors. Trademark protection arises through the entry of a registered trademark in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office.