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In this section you will find the latest publications by our lawyers
In this section you will find the latest publications by our lawyers
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) has handed down a decision which shines a light on a curious aspect of trademark law. In the case which was decided on 12 March 2015, German automaker BMW had sued a company which had produced and sold replica badges with the famous BMW sign, namely the […]
Dr. Marcus Dittmann (Lawyer) Last updated 1 June 2016 The Berlin Court of Appeals has ruled that WhatsApp’s Terms and Conditions do not bind German consumers, as long as they are available only in English and as long as there is no German version or translation (Kammergericht, Urteil vom 08.04.2016, Az. 5 U 156/14, link […]
Dr. Marcus Dittmann (Lawyer) Last updated 14 July 2016 Machine-generated data is increasingly gaining in importance and relevance to business activities. Cloud services, online and mobile user activities, server logs, vehicle telemetry, car-sharing services, sensor data, processes in the manufacturing and transport industry generate huge amounts of data. In Germany, a prominent buzzword for this […]
Note: This is an update to this author’s earlier article from 2016, see: Berlin District Court: Facebook must grant heirs access to a deceased person’s account (2016). In December 2015, the Local District Court of Berlin had decreed that Facebook must grant the heirs of a deceased user access to the deceased’s Facebook account (Landgericht […]
Legal Update Games Law 2018-2019 Germany Claas has given an update on recent developments in German law for computer games at the International Games Law Summit in Vilnius 2019. As of the request of participants you can download the slides here.
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