Large digital companies abuse control

Bundeskartellamt releases a statement about the Alphabet/Google abuse control For the first time, the Federal Cartel Office has certified Google’s “overriding, cross-market importance” for competition and can now prohibit practices of the company that endanger competition. According to Andreas Mundt,

OLG Rostock sees breach of competition on LUCA App

Rostock and the Luca-App breaching competition laws Learn more about this last tribunal decision: Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Rostock (Urt. v. 11.11.2021, Az. 17 Verg 4/21)   The Rostock Higher Regional Court has decided: the direct award of the Luca app by

Act Against Unfair Competition (German UWG): obstruction within the meaning of Section 4 No. 4 UWG in the case of systematic reproduction of a large number of peculiar products.

Act Against Unfair Competition (German UWG): obstruction within the meaning of Section 4 No. 4 UWG  in the case of systematic reproduction of a large number of peculiar products.

Summary of the German Version of the following Tribunal Decision: Source: Original – German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) Judgement of the 20 September 2018 – I ZR 71/17 – Industrial Sewing Machines concerning paragraphs 3, 4 No. 3 and 4