As per a recent survey conducted by the law firm of Grünecker, the manufacturer of sports articles, Nike, has filed far more sports clothing and sports boot patent applications than its direct competitors. This head start will be difficult for the German sports goods industry to catch up on, comments the author of the survey, Dr. Ulrich Blumenroeder, Attorney-at-Law, from the law firm of Grünecker, in a conversation with the German press agency dpa, as well as the news agency Reuters. Via the two agencies, this communication, naming the law firm, has been published by numerous media:

These include: dpa, Reuters, Handelsblatt, Die Welt, Focus, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Frankfurter Rundschau, Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung and other newspapers, magazines and news services.