Mar 13, 2025 | Copyright, News
With the sentence I ZR 16/24, published on the 25th of February 2025, the German Federal Court rejected Birkenstock’s appeal excluding copyright protection for the shape of some well-known sandal models. The German copyright law, the Urheberrechtsgesetz of...
Feb 18, 2025 | Copyright, News
On Thursday 20th Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi Veli will contribute to ‘Food&Wine and Art: economic synergies and legal implications’, the meeting, organised by Maria Katharina Rauchenberger, Legal & Compliance Director of Ruffino 1877 and AIGI –...
Feb 17, 2025 | Copyright, News
The recent Birkenstock case presented to the German Federal Court of Justice raises a crucial question: can the design of an iconic fashion product be protected as a work of art? Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena discuss it in this Tech Art Shoes...
Jan 27, 2025 | Copyright, News
About imitation and what makes iconic a shape for copyright: we discussed the very recent Birkenstock case with Il Sole 24 ore. Here is the article by Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena:...
Jan 16, 2025 | Distinctive Signs, News
On this Technofashion article, Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena discuss the topic of ‘selective distribution’ in the sales of fashion products and the conditions of legitimacy and criteria that retailers in this sector must consider in order to...
Jan 13, 2025 | Advertising, News
We tried to retrace the history of the Unified Patent Court: is its creation really so innovative? Maria Carla De Cesari of Norme & Tributi for Il Sole 24 Ore took our rereading backwards, from the Paris Convention onwards, which opened up new scenarios. Here is...
