Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of the Design of Sweets
GRP Rainer Lawyers Tax Advisors, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and London www.grprainer.com/en explain: The Düsseldorf Regional Court (LG) (Az.: 14c O171/12) did not affirm an advertising agency’s accusations of plagiarism based on the egg-shape of chocolate marshmallows. The advertising agency’s action was dismissed and the producer of the sweets was also allowed to continue selling chocolate marshmallows in egg-shape. According to the LG, the matter concerned compact eggs that differed from the...
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