Uber loses once again at LG Frankfurt a.M.
Uber’s mediation of rides to car rental companies is anti-competitive, the district court’s board said. In Uber’s business model, the court found various infringements of…
Category: Competition law
OLG Köln: Jameda partially inadmissible
Overview The button, which had been abolished in the meantime and was used to display “other” doctors in the immediate vicinity on the profile of…
Chamber Court on obligations to injuntture in the case of acts of third parties
The question of what exactly someone who has been convicted of an omission by a court must do repeatedly leads to legal problems in the…
International responsibility for advertising on the Internet
At the beginning of the year, the OLG Frankfurt ruled that a German court has jurisdiction over competition issues if the infringer acts (here statements…
Bundestag deals with abuse of warnings
The Federal Government’s draft law on the strengthening of fair competition(see my article here) concerns the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection in a…
BGH on bakeries and Sunday sales
The Federal Court of Justice has ruled that the sale of baked goods in bakery branches with café operations on Sundays is also permitted outside…
OLG Munich: Additional fees for PayPal and instant transfer allowed
In a procedure of the Competition Centre, the OLG Munich has allowed the calculation of payment fees both when using the payment service “Immediate Transfer”…
BGH on Liability for Customer Reviews on Amazon
The Federal Court of Justice currently has to decide whether the supplier of a product offered on the online trading platform Amazon is liable under…
Injunctive debtor is liable for Google Cache!
Anyone who has read about the blog here in recent months will have noticed that I am now very critical of the concept of a…
No advertising with a manufacturer’s warranty = no information required?
Until now, one of the biggest warning risks was when online retailers did not inform about warranty conditions of products that sold them (see e.g.…
Hangover is a disease? Attention to advertising statements
A hangover is a disease. Advertising statements that a dietary supplement is intended to prevent or reduce its consequences for alcohol is contrary to the…
Invoice for fake order? BGH says: Is anti-competitive
The Federal Court of Justice has passed a judgment that could well have the potential to cause headaches for many online retailers and providers of…
Should we ever sign a declaration of injunction?
Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of whether an injunction should be…
Customer reviews on the Internet
Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like to give a brief overview…
OLG Hamburg: less means less not more rare
Advertising statements and the UWG are often not really close friends and the jurisprudence to misleading representation or statements is extremely extensive. The Higher Regional…
Trade Secrets Protection Act: Act now!
Since 26 April 2019, the new Trade Secrets Act has implemented an EU directive that has so far received little attention in many companies. In…
Likes may not be used after company change
In the meantime, there are more and more judgments that deal with when and under what circumstances likes, fans or user comments can be used…
Direct debit in online retail at the end? The EU’s SEPA Regulation!
Lawyers have been talking for a while regarding the risk of offering direct debit under the Geoblocking Regulation (see this article). On the subject of…
Chamber court: “Best price” is misleading
The Chamber Court in Berlin has ruled that phrases such as “sell at the best price”, “sell at the best price”, “Quickly and at the…
ElektroG: Missing ton symbol on product = anti-competitive
The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has ruled that the lack of a picture of the indication of the ElectroG, on the packaging…