Obstruction via typing-error domain can breach Unfair Competition Act

• Autores: Tobias Raab
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2014, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • In a ruling of 22 January 2014, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) decided that the use of typing-error domains to intercept customers can constitute an infringement of the ban on deliberate obstruction of competitors enshrined in Article 4(10) of the Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (Unfair Competition Act - UWG)