obtain protection for your product or design under unfair competition law How to define infringing and unfair imitation How to enforce unfair competition claims, in particular in preliminary...

How to obtain protection for your product under unfair competition law • How to define infringing and unfair imitation • How to enforce unfair competition claims • How to challenge copies of...

the claimant’s model “Classic” has competitive individuality in the sense of German unfair competition law, whereas “LOXX b eye” is a nearly identical, unfair imitation, its distribution...

News Expert Articles IP Videos Unfair Competition Law The German Act against Unfair Competition is a powerful tool in combatting unfair business practices. Unfair competition such as misleading...

Dusseldorf Appeal Court, however, both found the reproduction to be an unlawful imitation under German unfair competition law. The defendant, Nicolaos Dasteridis SA, argued that the accused rear...

GmbH to be an almost identical imitation of the SIGG closures. The claims against NICI were based on provisions of German unfair competition law prohibiting product imitations...

attracts not only buyers and users, but also illegitimate imitators and copyists. While copying and imitation are cornerstones of competitive markets intellectual property rights of creators are...

their suppliers in two consecutive disputes over imitations of the original “Urbanears Plattan” headphones with claims under German unfair competition law. Zound Industries is producing and...

August Storck KG, Berlin, asserted against Stollwerck GmbH, Cologne, on the grounds of German unfair competition law for distributing chocolate products under the brand “Reichardt”. On February...

NAU S.R.L to infringe such design rights. Parallel to that, the Court granted claims based on unfair competition by parasitism in relation to four additional models. This decision is...

organizers and without becoming an official sponsor " 1 . Such practices can be prosecuted as unfair competition or parasitism under Article 1240 of the French Civil Code or as misleading...

trademark and unfair competition law at the German Ministry of Justice from 1985 until 1994. Legislation for which he was responsible included amendments to the German Unfair Competition Act,...

randl’s main areas of practice relate to litigation and advice in matters of trademark and unfair competition law. She has represented a client in major litigation proceedings between two global...

involves prosecution and litigation of IP rights in the fields of trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law. His practice focuses primarily on national and international industrial...

practice includes both litigious and non-contentious matters regarding Trademark, Design and Unfair Competition Law. As a member of a team of attorneys, Christa represents German as well as...

other IP-related agreements, advising clients on matters relating to employee invention law and unfair competition law. He cooperates with the firm’s patent attorneys in proceedings relating to...

w skiing equipment by Oneway was thus deemed a case of unfair competition, pursuant to Section 4 No 9 lit a German Act against Unfair Competition. The preliminary injunction forced Oneway to...

rights of Ritter Schönbuch Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH & Co. KG, Waldenbuch, and assertion of unfair competition ( see also here ). The Cologne Appeal Court (decision of April 12, 2013 – Case 6 U...