news and press Page 3 of 21. Previous 1 2 3 4 .... 21 Next 03. Nov Court finds warning letter a prerequisite for summarily terminating a commercial lease agreement A warning letter must have been issued prior to summarily terminating a lease agreement for... Read more 28. Oct Data theft – Company to pay compensation for breaching GDPR In the aftermath of a data leak, German digital asset manager Scalable Capital has been ordered by... Read more 25. Oct Karlsruhe court upholds premature dismissal of supervisory board member for good cause If it becomes unreasonable for a supervisory board and one of its members to continue their... Read more 12. Oct No tax relief on capital gains from privately held equity investment Capital gains derived from a privately held 100% corporate equity investment do not benefit from the... Read more 07. Oct Wirecard scandal could see shareholders face claims to claw back dividends Munich’s regional court – the Landgericht (LG) München – has declared Wirecard AG’s annual financial... Read more 28. Sep Düsseldorf court finds no copyright infringement in light of work’s sufficient distinctive character Copyright is not infringed if a work possesses sufficient creative character. That was the verdict... Read more 26. Sep Courts find custody fees and negative interest rates to be unlawful German banks and savings banks (Sparkassen) increasingly expect their customers to pay custody fees... Read more 23. Sep Promoting a discount on “everything” is anticompetitive if key products are excluded The statement “15 percent off everything” is anticompetitive when featured in advertising if key... Read more 20. Sep Protected three-dimensional trademark – Illegal imitation juice bottle A juice bottle bearing a strong resemblance to a more established model from another manufacturer... Read more 06. Sep Compensation for bankruptcy of Amsterdam Trade Bank Amsterdam Trade Bank (ATB) is bankrupt. Fortunately, the bank’s thousands of German depositors are... Read more Page 3 of 21. Previous 1 2 3 4 .... 21 Next