The Legal 500

Legal Developments in Germany

• Company & Commercial - Germany

  Letters of comfort under company law
  - GSK Stockmann + Kollegen

• German Federal Supreme Court clarifies requirements for testing infringement of a Community design

  (decision of September 28, 2011 – Case I ZR 23/10 – Kinderwagen/Pram)
  - Bardehle Pagenberg

• Blowing in the Wind

  As has been widely reported, Germany recently launched a project that is unique in the world: the complete change of its energy policy. After the Fukushima catastrophe had once again demonstrated that the use of nuclear power poses unpredictable risks, Chancellor Merkel and the German government accepted the obvious consequences. 
  - FPS Rechtsanwälte & Notare

• German Federal Supreme Court strengthens position of foreign-language patent applicants

  Mistakes in the German translation of a patent application filed in a foreign language can be corrected anytime and do not lead to loss of the patent.
  - Bardehle Pagenberg

• Dusseldorf Appeal Court grants protection against imitation of a rear light for trucks

  In a decision which has just become final, the Dusseldorf Appeal Court granted protection against distributing a replica of a rear light for trucks (Case No I-20 U 68/10).
  - Bardehle Pagenberg

• German Federal Supreme Court on the limits of patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents

  Decision of September 13, 2011 - Case X ZR 69/10 - Diglycidverbindung/Diglycidyl Compounds
  - Bardehle Pagenberg

• Legal Express Issue 1

  We are pleased to bring you our Legal Express, which covers the most significant legislative changes in Russia in December 2011 and January 2012.
  - Noerr

• Priority rental rights in insolvency

  Parties to rental contracts for commercial premises often agree priority rental rights. In practice, this concept is used to cover a whole series of legal structures. These range from fixed options for the tenant to a promise made by the landlord as a business policy that if any additional premises become available, they will be offered to the tenant. In 2010 the Berlin Court of Appeal issued a ruling on such priority rental rights in insolvency; the decision has recently been published.
  - SIBETH

• Dispute Resolution

  Introduction Simon Bushell Herbert Smith LLP 3
  - GSK Stockmann + Kollegen

• Germany – Debt-to-equity-swaps: a reorganisation and takeover instrument in Germany

  by Charlotte Schmitt, LL.M, GSK Stockmann + Kollegen
  - GSK Stockmann + Kollegen