Do you really think that Apple, Facebook and 1&1 have nothing in common? They do – unfair terms and conditions clauses. CHIP has revealed together with lawyer Hagen Hild those cases.

Dispatch on February 2, 2012 about the sentence of the Regional  Court Düsseldorf, file number: 4 O 137/97.

Dispatch on February 2, 2012 about the sentence of the Local Court Frankfurt /Main, file number: 30 C 1849/11-25.

Certified lawyer Julian N. Modi, LL.M., supports Galileo – a popular science magazine on ProSieben – about the topic „Legal mistakes on the Internet".

teltalrif.de interviews certified lawyer Hagen Hild about the topic: „Vodafone printed invoice costs € 1.50 since February“.

Augsburger Allgemeine interviews on December 1, 2011 certified lawyer Hagen Hild from lawfirm.biz – Law Firm Hild & Colleagues about the topic „Capito-Internet-ABC“ – „I from Internet Law“.

We are proud to announce that the lawyer Jörg Khöber has been awarded with the academic degree of a Master of Laws (LL.M.) after successfully completing the intellectual property master program of the Centre for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.

The kanzlei.biz team congratulates him!

We are proud to announce that the lawyer Kilian Besler has been awarded with the academic degrees of “IT-Law and Intellectual Property” Master of Laws (LL.M.) as well as “Information and Communication Technology” Master of Laws (LL.M.) after successfully participation in the European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP) at the Lebniz University in Hannover.

The kanzlei.biz team congratulates him!

Decision of OVG NRW (Higher Administrative Court NRW) of 02/08/2011, file number: 13 B 1659/10

Advertising with medical foot care is reserved only for podiatrists. A masseuse who advertises with such service acts anti-competitively if he has no formation as podiatrist. The layman cannot identify this service only as part of the work of the masseuse but expects a special qualification within the range of the foot care. Such advertising represents a misleading of the patient.

Certified lawyer Julian Modi, LL.M. has reached the decision in the Local Court Dachau on August 16, 2011, ref.: 2 C 1423/11, which has been published as the decision of the week in the legal magazine NJW – issue 42/2011.

Decision of the Federal Patent Court of 16/08/2011, file number: 28 W (pat) 112/10

The mark “Princess” describes merely the registered products in classes like “Jewelry”, since the description should only involve certain products with a special touch. This does not apply to accessories or similar utility or fashion products in a princess-look.

Decorating the own profile with photos, text and YouTube videos is something that happens every day on Favebook. The problem appears when the copyrights are not own by the facebook user who has just copied the internet contents. Even when a user is in principle owner of the rights and according to the terms of use, facebook is allowed to use the contents to a large extend. Lawyer Hagen Hild, certified lawyer in IT Law and in Protection of Industrial Property has been interviewed by FOCUS Online about that topic.

PayPal blocks against the sales within Kuba, Zalando obliges frequently returning buyers to pay in advance. Chip interviews lawyer Hagen Hild, certified lawyer in IT Law and in Protection of Industrial Property about that topic.

Judgement of LG Düsseldorf (Regional Court Düsseldorf) of 09/08/2011, file number: 14c O 194/11

Im Geschmacksmuster-Rechtsstreit unterlag nun der Elektronikhersteller Samsung dem Computer-Riesen Apple. Gegenstand des Rechtsstreits war Samsungs Produkt "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" - ein Tablet-PC, dessen Gestaltung dem Apple-Produkt "IPad 2" verblüffend ähnlich sieht. Dessen charakteristische Gestaltungsmerkmale hatte sich Apple im Wege eines Geschmacksmusters schützen lassen. Das Landgericht Düsseldorf untersagte dem Hersteller Samsung nun die Benutzung, insbesondere auch die Herstellung, das Anbieten und In-den-Verkehr-bringen, sowie die...

Elvis Presley has been supposedly exploited by his record company during his lifetime. At least this is what his descendants maintain suiting Sony Music Entertainment as Presley’s former record company. Antenne Bayern interviews Julian N. Modi, LL.M., certified lawyer in IT-Law about the rights of the heirs. They base their claim on § 32a Copyright Act (UrhG) that states that the artist is also later entitled to compensation in case that the new owner of the right of use has unexpected success with the work of art.

Whispering in the stock market can bring the stock quotes to collapse in short time. News spread non-braked around the globe through Facebook, Twitter & Co. Is the person who started the rumour liable for the damages? Financial Times Deutschland interviews lawyer Alexander Wagner about the legal situation and liability of the ones who manifest an opinion and of the ones who repeat it.

In case that a WLAN is unencrypted, uninvited surfing the web cannot be avoided. The unobstructed access invites to use the open Wi-Fi. This surfing is legal and does not constitute a criminal offence, as long as it is confined to the mere surfing the Internet. However, it should be morally denunciated since whom secretly sneak, scrounges. However, in case of scrounging there is an important risk of unwanted guest such as viruses of malicious software.

We welcome lawyer Arthur Kempter in the lawfirm.biz team.

During his degree in Law and clerkship at the Universität Tübingen, Freiburg and Leeds (U.K.) he focused on “intellectual property”. He has gained important practical experience working for several law firms based on commercial law, particularly in the area of copyright, intellectual property and IT law. Currently he is in the theoretical training for a certification in industrial property protection at the Hagen Law School.

The Member States hat time until January 20, 2011 to implement the new directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys – these implementing regulations should be applied from July 20, 2011. We have compiled for you the important innovations mentioned in the toys directive and also in the second regulation of the equipment and product security law and which should be followed by manufactures and online sellers.

Press release No 93/2011 of the Supreme Court dated 01/06/2011, file number: I ZR 140/09

In order to learn about copyright protection, creative services must reach so-called original authorship. The Supreme Court has informed that also educational games have the required authorship and may be protected as an interpretation of scientific nature. Only the form of that interpretation would be taken into account, not the content of the learning game.