Unfair Competition Defined
am 02.06.2008 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. A catalog of 30 unfair acts in retail competition will form the cornerstone of an amendment to the statute against unfair competition in Germany, Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb or UWG. The Berlin Attorney General provided examples of unfair acts in a press release of May 21, 2008. The list implements the 2005 EU directive 29. The new black list approach seeks to provide consumers with fair treatment throughout the European Union while assuring …
Hotel Marks in Germany and Spain
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. In the matter 33 O 209/03, the Cologne District Court, Landgericht ruled on September 13, 2005 that a German trademark for hotels in Germany is not violated by the same mark used for a hotel in Spain even if the Spanish hotel…
Sponsorships Conform with UWG
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / MM - Washington. Two competition watchdog groups slammed a brewery for its allegedly uncompetitive sponsorship of a rainforest program, in violation of the German unfair competition statute, UWG, of July 3, 2004, BGBl. I, 1414, as amended. Kro…
No Clean Hands in Competition
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Equity requires clean hands of a party that raises a claim against a party not to have violated the law in respect of the other party. The Supreme Court in Civil Matters, Bundesgerichtshof, in Karlsruhe, decided in such a cons…
Corporate Registration Controls
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The laws of the jurisdiction where a corporation is formed control the companys operations under a bill submitted to the Berlin diet on January 7, 2008, Brigitte Zypries, the federal attorney general, reported in a press rele…
Criminal Cooperation Germany - USA
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. German attorney general Brigitte Zypries published a press release of a meeting she and her colleague Schäuble, Secretary of the Interior, had on March 11, 2008 with the American federal attorney general, Michael Mukasey…
Commercial Use of Domain Names
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / HF - Washington. On January 26, 2006, Sebastian Meis explored the issue of commercial use of domain names in Germany in The Commercial Use of Domain Names Under German Law. Discussing a recent German court decision of a district cour…
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