The Higher District Court of Frankfurt had to deal in its decision of 31 March 2014 (Case ref.: 6 W 12/14) with the question under which circumstances the use of a third party trademark by a reseller as meta-tag or title of a webpage may constitute a trademark infringement. Generally everyone who resells goods which […]
In its decision of 18 June 2014 (Case ref: I ZR 242/12) the Federal Supreme Court reversed its jurisdiction according to which a company director was always already personally liable for the company’s violations of the Unfair Competition Act due to his position and the general responsibility for the business operations. In the future the […]
On 19 June 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had to deal with questions surrounding the individual character of an unregistered Community Design and the burden of proof for the individual character In the framework of the request for a preliminary ruling origination from Ireland (Case ref.: C-345/13). In the first question put to […]