On 4 May 2017, the federal Parliament adopted a new law which introduces extensive changes to the procedure of judicial liquidation of companies.

Subject to a few exceptions, EU Member States should apply the national implementing measures of the TPD as from 20 May 2016.

On 22 November 2017, Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona (the "AG") gave his opinion in Case C-531/16 Šiaulių regiono atliekų tvarkymo centras and Others (the "Opinion").

On 12 December 2012, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation to amend Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings.

The Protocol contains almost exclusively provisions the implementation of which is mandatory under the Directive.

The EU’s Court of Justice recently delivered a ruling that should interest enterprises exporting products either directly to or via the European Union.

The questions arose in proceedings between First Note Perfumes and Coty Germany GmbH, a German producer and distributor of perfumes and cosmetic products.

The "making available to the public" right forms part of the broader concept of "communication to the public".

For advertising purposes, BigBen uses images of goods corresponding to the protected designs held by Nintendo.

The GC observed, however, that the sign at hand was to be immediately and directly perceived by the relevant public as relating to body-building.

On 24 February 2016, the EU General Court ("GC") gave judgment on the validity of the trade mark registration by The Coca-Cola Company ("Coca-Cola") for the shape of Coca-Cola's contour bottle.

On 9 October 2012, the General Court of the European Union (the "General Court") annulled a decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (the "OHIM").

On 25 January 2012, the General Court of the European Union (the "General Court") upheld Pfizer’s opposition against the registration of the sign ‘VIAGUARA’ as a Community Trade Mark ("CTM") on the basis of the strong reputation of Pfizer’s own ‘VIAGRA’ trade mark.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") handed down two separate rulings on 15 March 2012 (Cases C-135/10 and C-162/10) holding that hotels making available music in their rooms are obliged to pay equitable remuneration, whilst dentists playing music in their private practice are under no such obligation.

On 15 February 2012, the EU’s Official Journal published Commission Regulation 125/2012, which adds eight substances to the REACH chemical Regulation's Annex XIV "authorisation" list. The addition of these eight substances brings the number of substances listed in Annex XIV to 22.

On 15 November 2012, Advocate General Mengozzi of the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered his opinion in a case between the holder of a registered Community trade mark and the proprietor of an allegedly infringing later Community trade mark.

On 12 March 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") ruled on a question referred to it by the High Court of Justice (England and Wales)...

On 15 December 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") handed down a judgment in Case C-119/10 between Frisdranken Winters BV ("Winters") and Red Bull GmbH ("Red Bull") regarding the protection of the latter’s famous trade mark RED BULL.

In a decision published on 5 April 2012, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR"), dismissed Bouygues Telecom's claims that French competition proceedings infringed its fundamental rights.

On 23 January 2018, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that there might be an abuse under competition law if a company asks a dependent company for wedding rebates that are not objectively justified.