HAMBURG : DESTEK PATENT attended the annual ECTA conference with more than 860 delegates in June . This year’s numbers of delegates exceeded former Annual Conferences.
Interesting sessions were being held on, inter alia, the latest Intellectual Property law news, the growing success of design rights and what it means in practice .
The JURI Committee has endorsed the Trade mark Directive and Regulation after a vote on 16 June 2015.
The new version of the Trade Mark Directive and Regulation was published by the European Counsil.
The Hamburg Regional Court and Higher Regional Court have been competent for settling disputes in the field of trademark law for many years. Both of these courts are also competent for the
Community Trademark Law .

Hamburg Port named Germany's "Gateway to the World" is the largest port in Germany and the second busiest in Europe after Rotterdam.
In the last year German customs officers have seized what they said could be the world’s largest haul of counterfeit goods, including nearly 1 million pairs of knockoff Nike sneakers. The customs department in the northern port of Hamburg said it had confiscated a total of 117 shipping containers filled with fake goods .