The Higher Regional Court of Hamm has ruled that a specialist surgeon owes a patient 220,000 euros in compensation for pain and suffering because he [...]
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The I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for trademark law, yesterday ruled on the legal validity of the registration of the word and figurative trademark [...].
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I. Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice has referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union the question whether a banking institution may request information on names [...]
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According to § 631 BGB, the contractor is obligated by a contract for work and services to produce the promised work. The subject of the contract for work is [...]
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The Independent Centre for Data Protection (ULD) is not entitled to require operators of Facebook fan pages to delete these pages because of any [...]
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In a decision, the Federal Court of Justice dealt with the question of whether a clause in the auction conditions of an auction house is effective, [...]
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