Eisenführ Speiser

Firm overview:

IP Boutique Eisenführ Speiser lawyers are experienced in German, European and international trademarks law. The firm works with developing clients’ trademarks strategy and in designing trademarks applications and conducts at both national and international level and advising on building and maintaining trademarks portfolios. “They are good lawyers,” admit peers.

The firm provides guidance on trademark protection alongwith searches, market analysis and designing registration strategies. The firm’s lawyers draft trademark applications, negotiate examining procedures before patent offices and support and protect clients’  trademark portfolios.

Team overview:

• Eisenführ Speiser has 11 lawyers with a practice involving trademarks located across four offices in Berlin (1 counsel), Bremen (2 partners, 1 of counsel, 1 associate), Hamburg (2 partners, 1 senior associate, 1 associate) and Munich (1 counsel, 1 senior associate). 

Key matters:

• Eisenführ Speiser represented PilePro GmbH, a producer and distributor of steel products and building materials based in Braunschweig in north central Germany and a division of Sheet Pile LLC of the United States, in a decision of the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
• The decision centred on the European Union trademarks (EUTM) application for the mark WADIT for class 17 goods (Caulking materials and weatherstripping compositions, caulking materials and weatherstripping compositions for sheet piling, sealing paints) by Georg Wall, the predecessor of SteelWall ISH GmbH.
• On  21 June 2023 the Cancellation Division upheld the application by PilePro GmbH due to non use for revocation of the mark in its entirety. On 28 March 2024 the Cancellation Division dismissed an appeal by SteelWall ISH GmbH upholding the earlier finding of non-use and ordering it to bear the total amount of EUR 1 630 in respect of the cancellation.
• In early 2024, Eisenführ Speiser assisted Sennheiser audio equipment group, and its Berlin-based subsidiary Georg Neumann GmbH, a manufacturer of high-quality professional microphones and headphones marketed under the Neumann brand, with several European Union trademarks (EUTM) registrations.

Clients:

Asklepios Kliniken, CEWE Stiftung, Chemex Foundry Solutions, DF World of Spices, Genovo, Georg Neumann, HÜPPE Service Solutions, Moin Bio Backwaren, The Pettibon System, PilePro GmbH, TopCent, Sennheiser Electronic SE