Bücher der Reihe Beiträge zum Europäischen Wirtschaftsrecht

»International Private Dispute Resolution - Impulses for the Establishment of a European Commercial Court«: The thesis shows that a European Commercial Court should be established in order to meet the needs of parties to cross-border commercial disputes. In particular, it examines the question of how such a court must be designed in order to meet the requirements of European Union law and German constitutional law on the one hand and to be considered an attractive forum from the parties' perspective on the other.

»Objection to Double Demands. An Examination of the Double Protection in Patent Law«: The harmonization efforts concerning the European patent system resulted in the proposal in Germany to allow the simultaneous protection by national patents and European patent titles, which is limited by the possibility to raise the objection to double demands. The dissertation examines this simultaneous protection as well as the possibility to object double proceedings and presents the conclusion that more and the better arguments plead for the introduction of the limited double protection.

»Commercial Agent Privilege in European Antitrust Law. Assessment of Agency Agreements against the Background of Article 101 (1) TFEU«: This thesis addresses the question whether and under which conditions agency agreements wholly or partially fall outside the scope of Article 101 TFEU (so-called Commercial Agent Privilege). In doing so, a concept for the antitrust assessment of agency agreements is developed, which can be used by practitioners. At the same time, it is shown that agents acting for several principals, as well as so-called >dual role agents< or online trading platforms can fall under the commercial agent privilege.

»The Demarcation of Company and Insolvency Law in the Light of the CJEU's Kornhaas Decision«: The thesis examines the application of national creditor protection provisions on directors of EU-foreign companies. Insolvency-related liability provisions of national, Irish and French law are classified according to conflict of laws. The qualification and demarcation are based on an elaborated catalogue of criteria. The thesis considers temporal constellations as well as different stages of insolvency-related cases and examines the international jurisdiction of the member states' courts.

»The Guilt Principle in European Competition Law«: The European Competition Law is often criticized for infringements of the guilt principle. The thesis examines if this criticism is justified. Conflicts with the guilt principle can be found in several areas of fining proceedings in competition law. The thesis shows that not every conflict means an infringement of the guilt principle, because the guilt principle has to be balanced with the objective of an undistorted competition.

»The EUTM Principle of More than Mere Local Significance«: The relationship between the EUTMs and national trademarks has always been controversial. The EUTM principle of coexistence requires that the requirements for genuine use and enforcement of the EUTM meet a certain standard of significance that justify the EU-wide effect of the EUTM and allow national trademarks to coexist with the EUTM in a balanced relationship. The minimum of this standard of significance is the legal term »of more than mere local significance«, Art. 8 (4) EUTM Directive.

»Arbitration Commitments in European and German Antitrust Law. The Effective Involvement of Arbitral Tribunals in Merger Control, Antitrust and Abuse of Dominance Proceedings«: This study examines legal issues associated with the use of arbitration commitments, including the (group-wide) civil law binding effect of such commitments and the standard of ordre public review of such arbitral awards, which serves as a corrective to conflicting decisions by the competition authority and arbitral tribunal. In addition, the paper examines why arbitration commitments have not been accepted in Germany and whether such commitments can be imposed by the competition authority.