Dear Sir or Madam, I import goods (home textiles) from China which I sell through various platforms (online shops, Ebay, Amazon, etc.). I have registered a brand in Germany for my product groups under which my products are distributed. The brand is ...
Hairdresser visit: Customer X wants a short haircut as usual for 10.00 EUR. Since she has been visiting the hair salon for some time, she knows that the service includes washing, cutting, and a quick blow dry to dry the hair if it is still wet after...
Dear ladies and gentlemen, Therefore, I would be very grateful if you could answer my questions. If you do not wish to answer my questions or if answering them is not part of your job, please send me an email to reject. I have read more materials a...
Is an eBay title with "Lego compatible" legally compliant? If not, what consequences could arise? P.S: The product is not from Lego. Since the Lego patent has already expired, many manufacturers are building Lego-compatible bricks....
In my tax assessment, the following sentence can be found: "The invoice for electronic books in the amount of 3059.50€ cannot be considered without proof of payment....". Submitted was a list of the e-books, the seller's address, my address, and the ...
Dear Lawyers, As a promotional measure, we would like to attach advertising banners to several balconies of a building at our company headquarters in Cologne. We are aware that any alteration to the visual overall impression of a building's facade r...
Dear Sir or Madam, I have just received a cost invoice and a declaration to cease and desist in the mail. Explanation: We sent a sales offer to a company in the same industry as ours. The email address was obtained from various freely accessible int...
Dear Sir or Madam, I run a company for household clearances and rubbish removal. My advertising is accessible through google. On 11.04.11 I was called by a customer and asked for a site visit in order to provide a quote. The visit took place on 18....
I have been working as a subcontractor for a building cleaning company for several months and have on my website a glass cleaning offer form and a form to schedule online appointments, structured in the same way as for the company I am subcontracting...
Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to add links and descriptions to medications in foreign countries (e.g. in the USA) on a website. Additionally, I would like to mention shipping costs, shipping time, etc. to Germany. The page should be structured as ...
As part of a advertising concept, I would like to offer the following Guerilla Marketing measures to a customer now. 1.) Reverse Streetbranding With the help of a stencil and a high-pressure cleaner, the company logo and website address are branded o...
I would like to become self-employed as a real estate agent soon and would like to ask if it is allowed to advertise by offering to pay a commission to the owner if they provide me with their property for brokerage? Or is it possible in another way, ...
The tenant M notes that the landlord V entered the apartment (a vacation rental) without his knowledge/permission after a proper notice of termination and took photos. V justifies this by saying that a handyman was on site (this was agreed upon, but...
Who can tell me if there is a legal obligation for a company issuing a pitch to also have to appoint an agency as the winner? Background: What does the client do if all invited advertising agencies present an unusable concept? Is there an obligatio...
Dear Sir or Madam, I own an auto repair shop and have taken over my father's company name (established in 1978) and have also had it patented. However, the name "ISKU" is patented in Nice Class 35 by the furniture company ISKU in Finland since 2004....
Some time ago, I received a call about a business directory entry, the company name, etc. was said very unclearly. According to the conversation, there should be a recording available. A few days later, I received a bill for 99.00 euros + VAT for th...
Dear Sir or Madam, There are judgments in which the use of a location name in the internet address is prohibited. Then I found judgments in which it is allowed: Higher Regional Court Hamm Judgment of 19.06.2008 4 U 63/08 "lawyer-firm-locationname.d...
Hello. I run a travel agency and today I received a warning from the Competition Center for alleged "deception about the exclusivity of a supposed advantage" (§§3 para.1,5 para.1 UWG). The Competition Center has various advertising materials (with an...
Dear Sir or Madam, I opened a store in 2007. As I am a graphic designer myself, I designed the entire visual identity: logo, outdoor advertising, website, online shop, flyers, business papers, etc. In 2008, a partner joined the store who is now tak...
The following problem: I have registered on the website Wahlinfo 2009.de and promptly received an email after the alleged deadline for objections with an invoice for 60,- Euros. I have been in contact with them a lot and have rejected the demand due...
I would like to find out if the term "Dermatology" is protected in Germany and can only be used exclusively by doctors. Specifically, I studied Chinese Dermatology in England at a private institute for Chinese medicine (not an official university) i...
Dear Sir or Madam, We are a newly established alteration tailoring shop and would like to send or distribute flyers to private households in the area where we are located. Is this allowed? Are there any clauses that I can use?...
Hello, We are a software company for garden and landscaping construction and we constantly have the issue that our coined terms are picked up and used by competing companies shortly after. For this reason, we have protected some word marks, such as ...
