INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION, TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Aipax Brands e.K. • Siriusstraße 6 • 12524 Berlin • Germany Binding legal declaration regarding the protection of our industrial property rights, copyrights, designs, trademarks, and AI-generated protected assets in German, European, and international legal frameworks.

PREAMBLE & STRATEGIC PROTECTION CLAIM

This protection and copyright notice regulates the use of all tangible and intangible protected assets developed, distributed, brokered, licensed, or published by Aipax Brands e.K. (hereinafter “Aipax Brands”) on its own and third-party platforms (online shops, marketplaces, social media channels).

Aipax Brands pursues a zero-tolerance strategy against product piracy, unauthorized dropshipping, brand misuse, systematic data scraping, and the unauthorized exploitation of media content. We consistently and proactively enforce our intellectual property rights in German and European jurisdictions, as well as internationally, with all available legal means – including preliminary injunction proceedings, claims for damages, and criminal prosecution.

SECTION A: PROTECTED ASSETS & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All content and works provided on our websites, shops, platforms, and advertising materials are protected to the maximum extent legally permissible. This protection particularly includes the following categories:

1. Trademarks, Company Signs, and Business Designations

All logos, trademarks (regardless of whether they are registered word, figurative, shape, color, or multimedia marks), company names, business designations, domains, product names, and collection names used are the intellectual property of Aipax Brands or our partners. * Any unauthorized use, imitation, dilution, or use in commercial transactions without our prior written consent constitutes trademark infringement in accordance with § 14 MarkenG (German Trademark Act).

2. Product Designs, Cuts, and Visual Configurations

The three-dimensional designs, cuts, textile designs, color combinations, packaging designs, and finishing forms of our on-demand and made-to-order products are protected designs. * These designs are protected by the German Design Act (DesignG) and the European Community Design Regulation. * Unauthorized imitation, production, distribution, or offering of identical or confusingly similar designs will be legally prevented.

3. Visual, Auditory, and Audiovisual Media Works (Copyright)

All photographs, graphics, layouts, illustrations, advertising clips, videos, reels, music compositions, sound effects, voices, and other acoustic or visual media works are protected as personal intellectual creations by the German Copyright Act (UrhG) and international agreements (in particular the Berne Convention). * This protection also applies to simple photographs (§ 72 UrhG) and moving images (§ 95 UrhG), regardless of their creative level.

4. Synthetic Media, Digital Models, and Generative AI Works

Aipax Brands uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) for media production. * Protection as photographic work/collection: AI media (images, videos, avatars) refined through human prompt design, curation, post-production, color correction, and retouching are protected under the UrhG (e.g., as photographs, graphics, or collections). * Supplementary competition law protection: Regardless of any copyright creative level, our AI-generated campaign media and digital models are protected as commercial services against direct appropriation by third parties according to § 4 No. 3 UWG (supplementary competition-based performance protection).

5. Texts, Claims, and Slogans

All product descriptions, slogans, marketing texts, FAQ formulations, and legal guidelines on our platforms are the intellectual property of Aipax Brands and are protected by copyright.

SECTION B: USE RESTRICTIONS & ABSOLUTE PROHIBITIONS

Any use of our protected assets that is not expressly permitted by law or for which there is no prior, written license agreement signed by the management of Aipax Brands e.K. is strictly prohibited.

1. Prohibition of Text and Data Mining (TDM Opt-Out for AI Training)

Aipax Brands expressly reserves the right to use all content published on our platforms for text and data mining within the meaning of Section 44b (3) UrhG (German Copyright Act) and Article 4 (3) of EU Directive 2019/790. - Absolute Restriction: Access to our websites, databases, media, and texts for the purpose of scraping, crawling, automated data extraction, or for training artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning models (in particular Large Language Models, image generators, and voice clones) is strictly prohibited without a separate license agreement. - Technical Detection: We reserve the right to technically block access for automated bots and crawlers and to pursue violations of this reservation under civil law.

2. Prohibition of Direct Performance Appropriation in E-Commerce (Shop Scraping)

The use of automated tools (e.g., spyware, dropshipping scrapers, listing copiers) to systematically copy our product catalogs, prices, product descriptions, mockups, or product photos for placement on own sales platforms (e.g., Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop) constitutes unfair appropriation of performance (§ 4 No. 3 UWG - German Act against Unfair Competition) and will be subject to a warning letter.

3. Prohibition of Lookalike Branding and Brand Dilution

Any creation of websites, social media profiles, or advertising materials that create the impression of acting on behalf of Aipax Brands, representing an official partnership, or imitating Aipax Brands' brand identity to mislead customers is prohibited.

SECTION C: LEGAL CONSEQUENCES, DAMAGES & CRIMINAL LAW

In the event of an infringement of our intellectual property rights by third parties (traders, competitors, private users for commercial exploitation), we will immediately and without prior warning take legal action.

1. Civil Law Claims

In the event of an infringement, Aipax Brands will assert the following claims in and out of court: - Injunction: Enforcement of an injunction liable to a penalty. In urgent cases, this will be done by way of a preliminary injunction. - Damages: We demand full compensation for damages. Calculation will be based either on the infringer's lost profit, the infringer's profit, or by way of license analogy (market-standard license fee plus 100% surcharge in case of missing copyright proof). - Information and Accounting: Right to disclose distribution channels, sales figures, revenues, and sources of the infringing products. - Destruction and Recall: Right to destroy infringing goods and recall them from distribution channels.

2. Obligation to Reimburse Costs (Warning Letter Costs)

The infringer is obliged to fully reimburse all costs incurred by the legal prosecution (attorney's fees according to RVG, patent attorney's fees, court costs, costs for test purchases, and securing evidence). The value in dispute for trademark warning letters in commercial transactions is generally at least 50,000 to 100,000 EUR, which entails significant attorney's fees.

3. Criminal Law Consequences

We point out that the unauthorized exploitation of copyrighted works according to § 106 UrhG (German Copyright Act) and the unauthorized use of trademarks according to § 143 MarkenG (German Trademark Act) constitute criminal offenses. These can be punished with fines or imprisonment of up to three years (up to five years in commercial cases). Aipax Brands consistently reports any sufficient suspicion of intellectual property right infringement.