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The German Federal Court clarifies merger control exemption

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 3 2008

The German Federal Court of Justice recently published a decision which limits the application of the German merger control regime by broadening the scope of the socalled de minimis market exemption

Imprint of former Eastern Cloc symbols on clothes does not constitute use as a trademark - Federal Court of Justice, Decisions of 14 January 2010, I ZR 8208 ("CCCR") and I ZR 9208 ("DDR")

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • October 14 2010

The Federal Court of Justice decided in two cases that the use of Eastern Bloc symbols as imprints on clothes does not constitute use as a trademark as the relevant public does not perceive them as indications of commercial origin

Long slogans lack distinctiveness in general

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • October 14 2010

The Federal Court of Justice decided on the distinctiveness of long slogans and held that, in general, the relevant public did not perceive long slogans as an indication of origin

Legal action against German spectrum auctions dismissed

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 21 2010

Germany will be one of the first EU Member States to harvest the digital dividend, i.e. the radio frequencies abandoned as a result of the switch-over from analog to digital broadcasting

Sequestration of infringing products in preliminary proceedings

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 22 2010

Counterfeiters are a huge problem for the holders of design or trademark rights

Infringement of Daimler's designs by producer of stretched cars

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 22 2010

The German car maker Daimler AG is the owner of several Community designs for its Mercedes S-Class cars, namely for the standard model

Merger block overturned

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 30 2010

On 6 May 2010, the Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) overturned a decision of the Federal Cartel Office (FCO), that had been confirmed by the Higher Regional Court (HRC) of Dusseldorf in the appellate instance, which in 2007 had prohibited PhonakSonova from acquiring the hearing aids business (GN ReSound) of Danish competitor GN Store Nord AS

Düsseldorf Court of Appeal sets standards for preliminary injunctions in patent infringement cases

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • July 22 2010

In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal of Düsseldorf has set the standards under which conditions a preliminary injunction can be issued in patent infringement cases

German Federal Court of Justice decides on ‘perlentaucher ’-cases

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 28 2011

The use of fragments of texts will only be legitimate if the new text it is used for is considered as an independent work protected by copyright law

Thumbnails legally permissible in Germany: German Federal Court, I ZR 6908, 29 April 2010

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 28 2011

At the end of April 2010, the German Federal Court of Justice rendered a landmark judgment regarding the use of so-called "thumbnails" in internet search engines

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