Wed, 10 Oct 2001
Employee Infringment of Employer Domain Rights
JG - Washington. After his dismissal in 2001, former Opel AG employee, Jörg Zellmann, filed suit against the company. Olaf Herrmann examines the case and explains that Zellmann had harmed Opel by creating the website "Opelaner.de". Opel claimed infringment of trademark rights and insisted on deleting the site. The Bochum labor court pointed to § 14 of the Trademark Act which guarantees the exclusive right in the domain to the owner of a mark.
© German American Law Journal :: Washington USA
JG - Washington. After his dismissal in 2001, former Opel AG employee, Jörg Zellmann, filed suit against the company. Olaf Herrmann examines the case and explains that Zellmann had harmed Opel by creating the website "Opelaner.de". Opel claimed infringment of trademark rights and insisted on deleting the site. The Bochum labor court pointed to § 14 of the Trademark Act which guarantees the exclusive right in the domain to the owner of a mark.
© German American Law Journal :: Washington USA
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