Competition law

The Federal Court of Justice has passed a judgment that could well have the potential to cause headaches for many...

Today I would like to raise one issue, because many are hardly on their radar. That is the question of...

Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like...

Advertising statements and the UWG are often not really close friends and the jurisprudence to misleading representation or statements is...

Since 26 April 2019, the new Trade Secrets Act has implemented an EU directive that has so far received little...

In the meantime, there are more and more judgments that deal with when and under what circumstances likes, fans or...

Legal experts have been pointing out the risk of offering the direct debit procedure due to the Geoblocking Regulation (see...

The Chamber Court in Berlin has ruled that phrases such as "sell at the best price", "sell at the best...

The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has ruled that the lack of a picture of the indication of...

On the subject of "loadable address", information in the imprint but also information in the revocation declaration, I have already...

Millions of Android phone users download files or apps from Google's Play Store. However, the Regional Court of Cologne has...

Misleading statements are a regular candidate when it is asked whether there has been a breach of the UWG. And...

On Friday I published an article on statements on websites and the danger of misinformation, see here, which received quite...

As I have already outlined in this article, the train of judgments regarding the labeling of affiliates and commission payments...

Important verdict Recently, the Higher Regional Court made a highly interesting ruling on the issue of labeling affiliate links (see...

In a recent decision, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt ruled that an undertaking is not liable for anti-competitive acts...

In a recent judgment, the Landgericht Duisburg ruled that the obligation to take back old electronic devices also applies to...

The ECJ recently issued a groundbreaking decision on the issue of providing a telephone number in the legal notice(see this...

If an influencer recommends a product without specifying its commercial purpose, this constitutes prohibited disguised advertising if he or she...

Time and again, advertising with guarantees for certain products is a case for the courts. Sometimes it's eBay itself, sometimes...