{"id":4942,"date":"2022-08-01T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/competition-law-antitrust-law-ip\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:53:17","slug":"competition-law-antitrust-law-ip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/en\/our-practice\/legal-areas\/competition-law-antitrust-law-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition law\/antitrust law (IP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<!-- banner-->\n<section id=\"block-banner-block_b53f54e4032ba6bc24a1f73bfd1f15cc\" class=\"block banner page-section  \">\n    <div class=\"container-fluid \" >\n    <div class=\"row bannercontainer\">\n    \n    \n    <div class=\"slider-item \" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HP_9764c-Mark-Kamin.c-Mark-Kamin.c-Mark-Kamin-1920x637.jpg)\">\n    <div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n\n \n    \n    <div class=\"inhalt text-start col-12 ausrichtung-\">\n    <\/div>\n   \n\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <\/div>\n              \n    <\/div>\n    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<!-- Text-->\n<section id=\"text-block_d8ce8fbcba21d8775d659854034d1dd2\" class=\"block text page-section bg-light\">\n    <div class=\"container normalpadding\">\n                <div class=\"text-center row justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n                \n                                    <h1 class=\"section-heading   col-lg-10 mx-auto \">Competition law\/antitrust law (IP)<\/h1>\n                    <div class=\"w-100\"><\/div>\n                                                                                <div class=\" col-lg-10  mx-auto text-center\"><p>The law against unfair competition (UWG) ensures free competition and is a tool against unfair business and advertising practices. The law against unfair competition can be used to secure your interests and to protect your customers from frauds, plagiarisms and unfair use of the reputation of an original product. 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In the case of an infringement antitrust law threatens the ineffectiveness of the entire contract as far as demands for compensatory damages by the contracting partners and payment of fines to the antitrust law authority. 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