In a judgment from November 5, 2018, the Landgericht (LG) Wiesbaden, the Regional Court of Wiesbaden, ruled that competitors are not entitled to issue a formal ...

The state and the press are meant to be separate. This also applies to official municipal gazettes. According to the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Germany"s Federal ...

The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Germany"s Federal Supreme Court, has set out new restrictions on pharmacies enticing new customers, ruling that readily offering ...

It is illegal to advertise a specific effect attributed to a medicinal product if said effect is based merely on laboratory tests and has not been demonstrated ...

A medical practice cannot advertise using the term "Praxisklinik" ("clinic" in English) if it does not provide overnight accommodation. That was the view ...

The taste of a food product is not eligible for copyright protection. That was the verdict of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a ruling ...

Three-dimensional signs cannot be registered as a trademark if they consist of a shape that is necessary in order to obtain a technical result. When ...

Consumers must not be misled regarding the essential characteristics of a product. According to the case law of the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Germany"s Federal ...

A managing director"s obligations include filing for insolvency on behalf of the company in a timely manner. He or she may be held personally liable for ...

No one ever says that law would be natural. Now that you are studying at a law university, you must have come to face the same problem. Students studying in ...