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What is the reality?
Before today s EU emerged, the construction of a European union was, at first, a tremendous success.
Many liberals have a short memory, but the EU has not always been the big, remote machine it has become. In the era of the more modestly named European Communities – entailing, for example, cooperation amongst multiple countries economies; or within their coal, steel and nuclear industries – Europe achieved four freedoms of movement: those of people, capital, services and goods. Despite its flaws, shortcomings and innumerable imperfections (nothing human is perfect), this common – or single – market made a massive and substantial contribution to the freedom and prosperity of Europeans.
Trademark litigators
lose interest in France, but not in Paris
According to new statistics on European litigation revealed
by Managing IP this week, trademark cases in France plummeted between 2015 and
2019.
While the data, provided by Darts-IP, shows that the Paris
High Court was the second most popular forum for trademark litigation in Europe
after the Milan IP Court, France has seen a notable
year-on-year decrease as a whole.
The country saw a 20% drop from 2015 to 2016, a 29% decrease
from 2016 to 2017, and a 33% fall from 2017 to 2018.
Sources say the time it takes to get through IP cases and
the low damages awards are two possible reasons why trademark litigators may
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Germany s Federal Constitutional Court holds that the question should be referred to the European Court of Justice
Is a data subject entitled to compensation from a controller or processor if the data subject s GDPR rights have been infringed, even if they have not suffered any kind of material damage? The answer to this question is unresolved in Germany, and according to the Federal Constitutional Court (
FCC ), the European Court of Justice (
ECJ ) will need to answer it.
The outcome could have major implications for controllers and processors. If a data subject needs not prove any kind of quantifiable, material damages when his or her GDPR rights have been allegedly infringed, controllers and processors face the prospect of compensating countless individuals who need not prove any sort of concrete, cognizable damages before a court. If a controller falls victim to a hacker, for example, then any data subject who s
January 30, 2021 10:14:17 am
Katrin Helling-Plahr of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) presented legislation Friday to regulate assisted suicide in Germany. Helling-Plahr partnered with fellow Bundestag members Dr. Karl Lauterbach of the Social Democrat Party (SDP) and Dr. Petra Sitte of the Left Party to draft a plan “for people who want to die independently and of their own free will.”
In February 2020, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that a ban on assisted suicide violated the right to personal autonomy and was unconstitutional. Although the decision technically legalized assisted suicide in Germany, Helling-Plahr says that “considerable uncertainty” remains for Germans seeking self-determined death and the doctors who aid them.