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Legal privilege under German law is not a general principle. However, attorney-client communication is protected by several seizure prohibitions, their scope and applicability depending on the statutory basis of the legal proceedings leading to the seizure of such communication.

The European Commission has just published the definitive text of the new rules on the interface between technology transfer agreements and antitrust law.

Trotz bestehenden Patentschutzes kann zwischen den Parteien ein potentielles Wettbewerbsverhältnis bestehen.

EU antitrust law plays a key role in the field of intellectual property licensing agreements which have an impact on the EU territory.

The European Commission has published draft revised merger guidelines that fundamentally reshape the EU merger control framework to address digital markets, innovation competition, and sustainability considerations.

In the wake of the Facebook/WhatsApp deal, Germany and Austria amended their respective competition laws in 2017 and supplemented the traditional turnover threshold test for pre-merger control notification with a size-of-transaction threshold test.

According to the CJEU, pay-for-delay agreements between the holder of pharmaceutical patents and manufacturers of generic medicines have the object of restricting competition and, thus, violate Art. 101 TFEU ...

The European Commission has been working on the realization of the digital single market since 2014. To this end, it has created a new area of law - "digital regulatory law".

Die Europäische Kommission hatte Anfang 2024 gegen mehrere Reifenhersteller unangekündigte Durchsuchungen wegen des Verdachts kartellrechtswidriger Absprachen durchgeführt...

In early 2024, the European Commission conducted unannounced searches of several tyre manufacturers on suspicion of cartel agreements, basing its initial suspicion largely on publicly available information – in particular transcripts of analyst calls, press releases and presentations.

The manufacturer of a product and his exclusive distribution partner do not require registered industrial property rights in order to protect the product against imitations. In Germany

With the judgment of 4 July 2023, the European Court of Justice decided that a national competition authority can refer to the General Data Protection Regulation in its examination.

While it is getting cold outside, and everyone is preparing for the flu season of the year, the Commission is continuously and vigorously enforcing the bloc's competition law in the pharmaceutical sector.

The European Commission published the new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation and related guidelines on May 10, 2022. The purpose of the block exemption is to generally exempt agreements...

On June 23, 2020, the Federal Court of Justice ("FCJ") overturned the Düsseldorf Court of Appeals' ("DCA") interim

Germany this summer introduced a new transaction value-based set of reporting thresholds.