IP-/IT-Recht

• What types of software licenses are there and how do they differ??
  There are different forms of software licenses, including SaaS (Software as a Service), which differ significantly from one another in their properties and usage rights. Here are some of the most common software licensing models and their key differentiators: Proprietary software license: Proprietary software is closed software, which is developed and sold by a manufacturer. Set the license conditions […]
• Automated data analysis by investigative authorities using software is not permitted: Unjustified encroachment on informational self-determination
  If stored data is processed using an automated application for data analysis or evaluation, this affects informational self-determination (Art. 2 Abs. 1 in connection with Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG) all one, whose data is used personally in this process. The intervention weight of an automated data analysis or evaluation and the requirements for their constitutional justification arise […]
• Determination of the paramount cross-market importance for competition by Google according to § 19a GWB
  BKartA B7 – 61/21 Decision of 30. December 2021 According to Section 19a Para. 1 GWB established, that the Alphabet Inc. including those with her according to § 36 Abs. 2 GWB affiliated companies (hereinafter "Google") is of paramount importance for competition across all markets. The finding is on 5 Years from existing power, d.h. to […]
• Advertising by a certified construction technician with the names "Büro für Architektur" or "Architekturbüro" is misleading and anti-competitive
  Advertisement of a certified construction technician for a planning office with the designation "Architect", "Office for architecture" or "architecture office" violates Art. 1 Abs. 1, 4 BayBauKaG. In addition, the advertising is misleading. LG Bayreuth judgment of 27.10.2020 32 The 710/19 … I. The defendant is convicted, if a fine to be determined by the court for each case of the infringement is avoided […]
• No placement of non-local taxi drivers via the "mytaxi" app
  Operating software - here the "mytaxi" app -, which establishes a direct connection between a nearby taxi driver and a passenger and thus enables customers to be transported in taxis, is unfair, if not prevented, that contrary to § 47 Abs. 2 PBefG also non-local, non-licensed taxi drivers. The app operator is a participant […]
• Owners of Union brand "Malle" can other conducting so-called. Malle parties prohibit
  By judgment of 29. November 2019 hat die 8. Commercial Chamber of the Landgericht Dusseldorf (38 The 96/19) decided, can that the owner of the registered trademark Union "malls" prohibit party organizers, to apply without his consent parties called "Malle" and to organize. In more than 100 preliminary injunction proceedings was the owner of the Union trademark "Malle" against […]
• Hosting providers and service providers such as Facebook can be designed, delete unlawful and meaningful same content, to terminate and seek hereafter - worldwide
  Directive 2000/31 / EC must be interpreted, that it does not preclude a court of a Member State, - give up a hosting provider, the stored information from him, that have the same content as word information, which have previously been declared illegal, to remove or block access to them, regardless, who the contract for the storage of […]
• Third debtor is in the seizure of the claims of the domain owner DENIC
  a) The ownership of an Internet domain under the top-level domain "de" is based on the totality of the contractual legal claims, the the the domain of the registration contract between DENIC owner is entitled. These claims are subject of the attachment according to § 857 Abs. 1 Code of Civil Procedure (Following BGH, Decision of 5. July 2005 - VII ZB […]
• No "misleading omission", if the consumer's information is withheld on the test conditions
  1. Art. 7 Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11. More 2005 Unfair business practices by companies to consumers in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EG) No.. 2006/2004 the European Parliament and […]
• Unzulässige Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Ausschüttungspraxis von Verwertungsgesellschaften: Einnahmen aus der Wahrnehmung von urheberrechtlichen Rechten und Ansprüchen auch an Verlage auszuschütten, da diese nur den Urhebern zustünden
  Mit heute veröffentlichtem Beschluss hat die 3. Kammer des Ersten Senats des Bundesverfassungsgerichts eine Verfassungsbeschwerde eines Verlags nicht zur Entscheidung angenommen. Diese richtete sich gegen ein Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs, wonach Verwertungsgesellschaften nicht berechtigt sind, Einnahmen aus der Wahrnehmung von urheberrechtlichen Rechten und Ansprüchen auch an Verlage auszuschütten, da diese nur den Urhebern zustünden. Die Verfassungsbeschwerde […]