Tag: Trademarks

Do standard NFTs fall under the MiCAR crypto framework? Probably not. Neither the EU legislator nor local supervisory authorities, such as BaFin in Germany, want ...

The Cologne Fiscal Court has ruled that the purchase and sale of virtual land in a computer game is subject to VAT. The facts of ...

The Munich Regional Court has ruled that a trademark infringement would be committed if someone were to offer for sale again Fritzboxes that he had ...

The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for trademark law, today dismissed the applications for cancellation ...

The mere storage of trademark infringing goods by Amazon in the context of its online marketplace (Amazon Marketplace) does not constitute a trademark infringement by ...

Great YouTubers often have a large following. Accordingly, third markets often form around them. These include apps called "Soundboard." However, these are usually a violation ...

As a lawyer, I mainly deal with issues of IT law and media law, advising startups, streamers, influencers and other media creators on copyright, competition ...

One believes to have had many problems in trademark law at least once on the table or to have evaluated them with colleagues and clients, ...

Currently, I am again offering a position for a legal trainee in Berlin who is interested in completing his legal internship or - alternatively - ...

Even if you might think that .eu domains are not really very important, their distribution in Europe was quite high with 3-4 million registered addresses. ...

Dear readers, I am currently looking for a trainee lawyer or a student who is interested in IT law and could write articles or blog ...

In recent months, Lupedi UG, represented by the law firm Bleischwitz & Schierer, has been issuing warnings to Ebay users, usually concerning the question of ...

Up to now, it has been the rule rather than the exception in competition law and copyright law that in the case of a preliminary ...

According to the ECJ, if someone publishes several sales advertisements on a website, this does not automatically establish the activity as a "trader". This can ...

From last year's experience, I would like to accumulate in this article ten tips that YouTubers and streamers on the Twitch platform should seek legal ...

In three appeal proceedings, the Federal Court of Justice considered the use of test seal marks as a violation of the trademark proprietor's rights in ...

An interesting decision on trademark law has been taken by the Regional Court of Munich. After Lindt fought and lost to the ECJ for the ...

In the preliminary injunction procedure for the repackaging of a cancer drug by a drug importer, the 6th Civil Senate of the Higher Regional Court ...

The problem with stolen gamertags In recent months, more and more clients, especially well-known streamers, have approached me because their gamertag has been misused in ...

Time and again, the question arises in the area of computer game tenants whether game rules are protected or whether one should "copy" them. The ...