On June 18, 2009, the German Bundestag passed two laws on international design protection. The laws are intended to improve design law (the so-called [...]
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The VIII. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible, among other things, for residential tenancy law. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice has ruled that in the event of an invalid final renovation clause in the lease [...]
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The VIII Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible, among other things, for residential tenancy law, has ruled that a significant deviation from the actual [...]. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice has ruled that a significant deviation of the actual [...]
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The VIII. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is responsible, among other things, for residential tenancy law. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) had to decide under which conditions the [...]
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The plaintiff claims against the defendant sports association for the omission of the publication of an entry on its homepage. The plaintiff is a member [...]
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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which is responsible for copyright law among other things, ruled on April 22, 2009 that the collecting society GEMA (Gesellschaft [...]
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