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Coronavirus: the impact on the Court of Justice of the European Union
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Coronavirus: the impact on the Court of Justice of the European Union

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Coronavirus: the impact on the Court of Justice of the European Union

MDM Law firm2020-03-22T21:17:50+00:0019 March 2020|Coronavirus Resource Center|

Important messages for parties 1. Court of Justice 19 March 2020 Owing to the unprecedented health crisis that we are currently experiencing, the Court of Justice is obliged temporarily to Read More

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MDM Law firm2019-11-06T15:13:31+00:002 October 2019|EU Law, IP Law|

The German Federation of Consumer Organisations has challenged before the German courts the use by the German company, Planet49, of a pre-ticked checkbox in connection with online promotional games, by Read More

The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the EUIPO decision which confirmed registration of the shape of the Rubik’s Cube as an EU trade mark
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The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the EUIPO decision which confirmed registration of the shape of the Rubik’s Cube as an EU trade mark

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The EU Court of Justice sets aside the judgment of the General Court and annuls the EUIPO decision which confirmed registration of the shape of the Rubik’s Cube as an EU trade mark

Massimiliano Di Martino2019-04-06T20:19:02+00:0020 November 2016|EU Law, IP Law|

An insurance contract must set out transparently, in plain, intelligible language, the functioning of the insurance arrangements

Massimiliano Di Martino2015-04-23T21:00:52+00:0023 April 2015|EU Law, Insurance and Reinsurance|

The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive (see Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts) provides that consumers are not bound by unfair clauses […]

A landmark in a long battle over European Union privacy laws

Massimiliano Di Martino2013-06-26T10:07:56+00:0026 June 2013|EU Law, International Commercial Law|

Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González considers that search engine service providers are not responsible, […]

Where a Member State grants national companies the right to convert, the same right must also be granted to companies incorporated in another Member State

Massimiliano Di Martino2012-07-15T20:00:56+00:0015 July 2012|Conflict of Laws, EU Law|

Hungarian law authorises Hungarian companies to convert, but does not allow a company governed by the law of another Member State to convert to a Hungarian company. The Italian company […]

A clause in a selective distribution contract banning the distributors from selling the products online amounts to a restriction on competition by object

Massimiliano Di Martino2011-10-13T10:52:59+00:0013 October 2011|Competition, EU Law|

Article 101 TFEU prohibits agreements which have as their object or effect the restriction of competition. Article 101(3) TFEU provides, subject to certain conditions, for agreements which improve the distribution […]

The rule of unisex premiums and benefits will apply with effect from 21 December 2012

Massimiliano Di Martino2011-03-01T13:00:55+00:001 March 2011|EU Law, Insurance and Reinsurance|

Directive 2004/113/EC prohibits all discrimination based on sex in the access to and supply of goods and services. Thus, in principle, the Directive prohibits the use of gender as a […]

Mere use of a website by the trader does not in itself trigger application of the rules of jurisdiction for the protection of consumers in other Member States

Massimiliano Di Martino2010-12-08T12:00:28+00:008 December 2010|Conflict of Laws, EU Law, International Commercial Law, International Sale of Goods|

The European Court of Justice in its Judgment in Joined Cases C-585/08 and C-144/09 Peter Pammer v Reederei Karl Schlüter GmbH & Co. KG and Hotel Alpenhof GesmbH v Oliver Heller explains […]