unfair comptetition

Posted in BGH, CJEU, data protection, data scraping, database right, unfair comptetition

BGH: Screen Scraping Does Not Constitute Unfair Competition
German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) is in a new case on meta search engines and screen scraping — Flugvermittlung im Internet, I ZR 224/12 — again proving its superior expertise and better sense of the real world compared to the Court of Justice of the EU. In a case involving notorious litigant Ryaniar who sued
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Posted in consumers, net neutrality, unfair commercial practicies, unfair comptetition

The Slovak Court Orders an ISP to Stop Breaching the Net Neutrality
The first instance court – District Court in Bratislava I., last Thursday issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting continuance of net neutrality breach by one of the Internet access providers. The injunction was granted in a ongoing unfair competition law case between two ISPs, Slovak Antik and Dutch UPC. The case already started in March this
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Posted in Art. 5 TMD, comparative advertising, keywords, unfair comptetition

Domain Names, Metatags & Comparative Advertising
CJEU in summer decided an very interesting technology related case – Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology (BEST) C-657/11. The case might have strong consequences for both the domain name dispute resolution and search engine optimization – SEO (assuming that metatags still matter at least a little bit). The BEST case is an unfair competition case. The
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Posted in CJEU, conflicts of laws, copyright, trade marks, unfair comptetition

Some Exciting CJEU References
Today somewhat more copyright oriented post. It seems that interesting references for preliminary rulings before the Court of Justice of EU are definitely not on the decrease. Except for the older pending ones, which I list here, consider this fantastic set of cases. Copyright limitations, such as private copying exemption and library use exemption, but
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Posted in mylife, unfair comptetition

Misleading Ad Copy Examples
Last week Huťko successfully finished his IP distance learning course in order to get to WIPO´s Summer School in Geneva. Inspired by course Huťko decided to share two really nice food examples that were included in the unfair competition module. Dear readers, would you consider following to be misleading according to your national laws? Example
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