Protecting Craft and Industrial Products: The EU’s New Geographical Indication (GI) Framework Effective December 2025

Post date: 
October 31, 2025
Categories: 
IP Rights, Intellectual Property Law, Geographical Indications

Protecting Craft and Industrial Products: The EU’s New Geographical Indication (GI) Framework Effective December 2025

It may not seem obvious, but “Parma ham“ and “Champagne” share several important similarities. On the one hand, both are agricultural products. On the other hand, they are geographical indications. The latter can be protected legally as “Protected Designations of Origin” (PDOs) thanks to Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, which provides EU-wide protection of Geographical Indications for agricultural products, wines and spirits.

In contrast, there has been so far no protection for Geographical Indications for craft and industrial products on an EU-wide basis. This is set to change from December 1st, 2025, with Regulation (EU) 2023/2411, which provides for the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products at EU level.

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What is BRANDING really about?

Post date: 
April 19, 2012
Categories: 
Design Law
Tags: 
Branding, Brands, Trademarks
We thought we should share this great video on BRANDING with you. It was produced in 2011 by MSc Brand Leadership team at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. In essence, a BRAND is a "stamp of ownership" - making people aware that it is "YOURS".

Visionary Inventors - LexDellmeier supports World IP Day on April 26, 2012

Post date: 
March 27, 2012
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
Copyrights, Designs, Innovation, Inventors, LexDellmeier, Trademarks, WIPO, World IP Day
Visionary inventors have and will continue to revolutionize our world with their outstanding ideas. Curiosity, knowledge and determination of individuals are the basis for every great innovation. As an IP boutique firm headquartered in Munich, Germany - home of the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) - we take the opportunity to help support and promote this year's IP Day.

Are you going a bit GAGA?

Post date: 
March 26, 2012
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
Copyright, Copyright Law, LexDellmeier, Performing Arts, Works of Art
Copyright laws - among others in Germany - and the great difficulties to know and assess what is allowed - and what is not. Stars like Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga are musical icons and partly already legends of music history.  They are everywhere in our daily lives – on the radio, in commercials and we find their fashion in lifestyle and VIP magazines.

Stop Product Piracy and Counterfeiting - Raising Consumer Awareness

Post date: 
February 24, 2012
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
APM, BASCAP, Copyright, Counterfeiting, Designs, ICC, Infringement, IP-Lawyer, Product Piracy, Trademarks, WIPO
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) together with its intitiative "Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy" (BASCAP) has launched a unified consumer awareness campaign against counterfeiting. The campaign was officially launched by BASCAP and its global partners from around the world - incl. Germany's Anti-Counterfeiting Organization APM  who want to improve consumer awareness regarding the harms of counterfeiting and piracy. The aim and objective is to help consumers understand that counterfeit products are a real threat to health and safety, jobs and the economy.

QUESTION: What is worth more than gold and diamonds in these economic still turbulent times?

Post date: 
February 08, 2012
Categories: 
Design Law
Tags: 
Designs, IP, LexDellmeier, Patents, Trademarks, worldwide
ANSWER: Intellectual Property (IP) Rights - including trademarks, designs, utility models & patents. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) just recently published its World IP Indicator 2011 Report. Fact is, that Intellectual Property (IP) Rights have experienced a growth rate that is breathtaking. - Patent filings grew by 7.2% - Trademark filings grew even more so by 11,8% in 2010 - compared to a 5.1% increase in global gross domestic product (GDP). The growth comes from the larger IP offices around the world - the number one being 1. China with an increase of 24.3%, followed by 2. the European Patent Office (EPO) with an increase of 12.2%,

New Year's Get-together 2012

Post date: 
January 18, 2012
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
Designs, Event, LexDellmeier, Munich, Salt

GERMANY: Almost 70,000 new national trademarks

Post date: 
January 16, 2012
Categories: 
Product Piracy
Tags: 
German Trademarks, Germany, Trademarks
                                                                                      1. National Trademark Filings in Germany  The German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO) in its Annual Report published the recent filing numbers of national trademarks applied for in Germany. Here is an overview of the number of trademark applications filed in 2007 - 2010: - 2010: 69,072 - 2009: 69,069 - 2008: 73,903 - 2007: 76,165 2. Top Trademark Filers

IP Rights and Company Value

Post date: 
November 27, 2011
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
Copyright, Designs, Infringement, IP-Lawyer, LexDellmeier, Seminar, Trademarks
On 16 November 2011 LexDellmeier held a one-day seminar on the topic how the strategic creation, maintenance and defense of IP-rights can positively influence the company value. The first part of the seminar featuring as speakers Alexandra Dellmeier-Beschorner and Barbara Niemann Fadani of LexDellmeier dealt with the creation of strong IP-rights and global application and registration strategies as well as the new, mainly internet-based infringement problems (e.g. adwords, wild cards etc.)  and the  latest German and European case law in this regard.

LexDellmeier Seminar "Vom Schutzrecht zum Unternehmenswert"

Post date: 
September 09, 2011
Categories: 
Copyright Law
Tags: 
Copyright, Designs, Infringement, IP-Lawyer, LexDellmeier, Seminar, Trademarks, Unternehmenswert
LexDellmeier bietet Unternehmern und Unternehmen die Gelegenheit bei diesem Seminar tiefere Einsicht zu gewinnen, wie eine gekonnte Strategie bei der Schaffung, der Eintragung und dem Schutz von IP-Rechten den Unternehmenswert steigern kann. Weitere Informationen und das genaue Programm können Sie dem zum Download bereitgestellten Flyer entnehmen. Download Seminarflyer (pdf) Download Anmeldeformular (pdf)

Louboutin’s Red Soles - The first verdict is here!

Post date: 
August 22, 2011
Categories: 
Decisions
Yves Saint Laurent may still sell his red-soled shoes.

As we had reported before on LexDellmeier’s „Not just another IP-Blog“, the famous luxury shoe brand Christian Louboutin had sued the just as famous luxury fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent for damages because of an infringement of Christian Louboutin’s trademark right of the Red Sole. With a preliminary injunction they wanted to stop Yves Saint Laurent from selling the shoes that featured a red sole.