Digital platforms providing intermediation services are becoming increasingly popular and disruptive in a variety of industries. Those services may qualify merely as “information society services”, while in other occasions, they are regarded as ancillary to an overall service coming under a different legal classification, triggering the implementation of different set of rules. … Continue reading Uber vs Airbnb: key takeaways from ECJ’s case law
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Interplay of the PSD II and the GDPR
Tensions between the PSD II and the GDPR are expected to mount as financial entities seek to comply with overlapping provisions in the two pieces of legislation. In the case at hand, the Court examined the interaction between provisions aiming at similar results, i.e. the right of access to personal information. Merits… Continue reading Interplay of the PSD II and the GDPR
New mediation law and how it affects civil proceedings
New mediation law passed on 28.11.2019 introducing mandatory mediation is expected to affect fundamentally civil proceedings in the majority of disputes before Greek Courts. The relevant provisions of law 4640/2019 will come into effect gradually beginning 2020 and it remains to be seen whether their mandatory nature will live up its expectations and… Continue reading New mediation law and how it affects civil proceedings
Employees’ inventions
Employees’ inventions are crucial for IP intensive undertakings and a contributing factor to their success. In case the invention is exceptionally beneficial to the employer, the employee may be entitled to an additional fair compensation. Practitioners and Courts, especially in jurisdictions with sparse case law, like Greece, face difficulties in determining a) the… Continue reading Employees’ inventions
Infringement of EU trademark and competent courts
The proprietor of an EU trademark may bring an infringement action against a third party infringing his rights through advertising or offers for sale displayed electronically, before a Court of the Member State within which the consumers [or traders] to whom the advertising and offers for sale are directed, are located, notwithstanding the… Continue reading Infringement of EU trademark and competent courts
IP protection of the shape of a car
Can the design of a car be protected under copyright law? In case of the legendary Ferrari Scaglietti 250 GTO, the Court of Bologna said, for the first time, yes! This may be of particular importance to carmakers, especially after judgments of the General Court in cases T-209/18 and T-210/18, involving the 1963 Porsche 911… Continue reading IP protection of the shape of a car
Blockchain basics
What is blockchain? Blockchain is, in essence, a new architecture of building data bases, where data is stored in blocks in a way that a continuous and interconnected chain of data is created. Even the slightest change in data stored in previous blocks cannot be made without changing data in following blocks. This… Continue reading Blockchain basics
New Trade secrets Law
Trade secrets and confidential business information are critically important to the growth, competitiveness and innovative performance of businesses. In the current globalised market, characterised by increasingly pressing and extensive competition, intangible assets are capable of providing a competitive advantage to all sorts of companies and business sectors. Where innovation does not fulfil the… Continue reading New Trade secrets Law
Η τεχνολογία Blockchain, οι εφαρμογές της και οι νομικές πτυχές της
Ι. Εισαγωγή Η πρόσφατη εκρηκτική απήχηση των λεγόμενων «κρυπτονομισμάτων» έφερε στο προσκήνιο, μεταξύ άλλων, την τεχνολογία στην οποία αυτά βασίζονται, και συγκεκριμένα την τεχνολογία blockchain ή, κατά ευθεία, αλλά όχι δόκιμη, μετάφραση στα ελληνικά, τεχνολογία «αλυσίδας μπλοκ». Παρότι, αρχικά τουλάχιστον, η τεχνολογία αυτή ταυτίστηκε με τα νέα αυτά μέσα πληρωμών (ή συναλλαγών… Continue reading Η τεχνολογία Blockchain, οι εφαρμογές της και οι νομικές πτυχές της