The ECJ recently ruled on the question of whether the registration of a trademark for a very distant class of goods and services automatically leads to a dilution of very well-known trademarks.
A ham may be labeled as “Black Forest ham” even if it was not cut and packaged in the Black Forest. This was decided by the Federal Court of Justice.
In 2014, the Higher Regional Court of Cologne had already dealt extensively with an author’s claim for damages if the work itself can be used
A company that stores goods for a third-party seller without knowledge of the trademark infringement does not use the trademark itself if, like the seller,
In 2011, soccer player Lionel Messi registered the term “MESSI” for sportswear and sporting goods as a European Union word mark. The trademark owner of
The Federal Court of Justice has rejected the applications to cancel two trademarks registered for chocolate bars in the form of square packaging. This means
In a recent decision, the judges at Frankfurt am Main Regional Court contradict the prevailing legal opinion on freedom of panorama. The case was triggered
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A film exploiter has failed in the last instance with her action for information against Google. The reason
The community of heirs of Astrid Lindgren successfully brought an action before the Hamburg Regional Court against Filmkunst-Musikverlags- und Produktionsgesellschaft and the widow of the
Munich Regional Court I has deemed the lawsuit filed by a graphic designer against FC Bayern Munich to be well-founded. The graphic designer had adapted
