Tag: Consumer

The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for trademark law, has to decide in three revision proceedings under which ...

If an influencer recommends a product without specifying its commercial purpose, this constitutes prohibited disguised advertising if he or she is working full-time with the ...

The VIII Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice has ruled that a contract of sale concluded by a consumer with an online retailer ...

If it is public, you should be careful with it. This is especially true if the content is not true, because then such a statement ...

Sweepstakes are a tried and tested means of marketing for many online retailers, both on their own website and in the social media sector. With ...

If a competition association itself has issued a warning and asks the admonisher to provide further explanation of this warning, the costs incurred by the ...

Following the ECJ decision on the use of paid numbers to contact an online retailer (CJEU, judgment of 02.03.2017 – Rs. C -568/15), there is ...

A car dealer may not advertise a car at a price that is dependent on the buyer paying for his old vehicle if this is ...

Already a few times I had to tell clients that one should be very careful when one communicates - possibly even as a legal layman, ...

Yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting ruling by the Supreme Court in Vienna. For Austria, the latter has finally decided that an e-mail that is ...

I hinted at it in this post on the geo-blocking regulation. Now the European Commission has informed Valve, as owner of the video game distribution ...

Time and again, one has to hear from clients that, in the event of a warning that seems justified, one can simply sign the injunction, ...

As I often write, the establishment of an online service or an online shop is currently riddled with so many traps and warning risks that ...

The ECJ has ruled that the right of withdrawal also applies in the case of the purchase of a mattress and even if its protective ...

Influencer's decision-making around tagging brands on Instagram continues. And as has often been said here on the blog, the warning industry is more than actively ...

At the end of January this year, the Regional Court of Bochum ruled that the age restriction for alcoholic beverages also applies to online sales. ...

A popular warning topic for online retailers, be it in their own online store or on trading platforms such as Amazon and/or eBay, is the ...

In tax law, lawyers can usually argue even more than is not otherwise the case in civil and industrial property law. A legal question which ...

With a decision published today, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main prohibited the publication of "purchased" customer reviews unless the remuneration was also ...

Prohibited clauses in player contracts of esport teams A few days ago, I reported how many types of contracts are in fact to be regarded ...