According to two decisions of the Federal Court of Justice of 18.12.2012, the costs for the attorney at law participating in nullity proceedings are to be refunded under all circumstances where parallel infringement proceedings are pending.

This article addresses the impact that the German Federal Court of Justice's 17 October 2019 decision (BGH, ref. III ZR 42/19 = NJW 2020, 399)

In a decision handed down on 30 September 2024, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Mannheim Local Division to limit additional time for preparing a rejoinder on non-technical aspects...

The UPC Court of Appeal has overturned a €2 million security for costs order, finding that a claimant's litigation insurance with anti-avoidance endorsement provides sufficient protection against unenforceability of adverse costs orders. This landmark decision addresses whether appropriate litigation insurance can substitute for traditional security mechanisms and signals that courts must properly consider such policies when assessing security applications.

Transactions in Bitcoin do not constitute a bank transaction and certainly such transactions are not a criminal offence.

If a (founder-) shareholder leaves a company, her co-shareholders will want to make sure that the departing shareholder will not use her know-how and contacts to engage in competing activities...

The Court of Appeal ruled (without rendering a final adjudication) that the Regional Court's judgments are not evidently and apparently wrong.

It remains to be seen how the Court of Appeal will eventually deal with the case. The Court of Appeal scheduled two oral hearings at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, respectively.

Another interesting finding of the court regards the role of the reputation of the trade mark.

The aim of Benedikt Lüthge's essay is to analyze the law of agency in the state of Louisiana and compare it to its German equivalent.

In 2012 and 2013, the German Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") had imposed a total fine of € 191 million on ThyssenKrupp for its participation in a cartel on the market for the sale of rail tracks and rail equipment.

In March 2018, the UK Court of Appeal (Computer Associates UK Ltd. v. The Software Incubator Ltd. [2018] EWCA Civ 518)...

On 9 June 2016, the German Civil Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) decided that close-out netting provisions contained in German law-governed framework agreements for financial derivative transactions.

The Court ordered Samsung to provide information and to render an account of past sales in Germany.

Today, I am going to talk about the practical relevance of preliminary injunctions (PIs) for patent infringement at the UPC.

Recently, the Berlin-Brandenburg Regional Labor Court ruled on the rights of an employer to check browsing history without the employee's consent.

In 2014, under the terms of a promotional offer, the defendant, a manufacturer of the diet product A-Vitalkost, offered pharmacies a 30% discount on a one-off direct order of 12 to 90 cans of the product.

In its decision of 8 August 2019 (Ref.: 29 W 940/19), the Munich Higher Regional Court commented for the first time on the German Act on the Protection of Business Secrets (GeschGehG).

A party or its representative may prepare a private transcript of an oral hearing, based on an audio recording pursuant to R. 115 RoP. When producing a private transcript, a party or its representative may obtain support of an assistant or support staff...

Der BFH hat mit Urteil vom 19.11.2025 (I R 41/22) entschieden: Allein der Abschluss eines neuen DBA genügt, um eine Entstrickungsbesteuerung nach § 4 Abs. 1 Satz 3 EStG auszulösen – ohne jedes aktive Zutun des Steuerpflichtigen.