Mag. Matthias Mitterlehner

The Austrian Administrative Supreme Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) had to deal with a trademark licensing between Malta and Austria. The Austrian trading company MCo had demerged its business and real estate to the Austrian company XCo in 2007. The trademarks stayed with MCo.

In recent years, Austrian entrepreneurs have often chosen the British "Limited Company" ("Ltd.") as a legal form for their business activities. The Ltd. was formally registered in the UK, but its place of management and its business activities are in Austria.

April 2020