{"id":11902,"date":"2016-03-30T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kpw-law.de\/?p=11902\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:54:19","slug":"scope-of-a-cease-and-desist-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/scope-of-a-cease-and-desist-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope of a cease-and-desist declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the recipient of a warning letter submits a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause, the risk of repetition resulting from the infringement is regularly eliminated. But can the warned party limit the cease-and-desist declaration to advertising on the internet or is this not sufficient? The Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court provides an answer to this question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Scope<\/a>A company that manufactures devices for health monitoring and aesthetic therapy advertised various devices and treatments on the Internet in an anti-competitive manner.<\/p>\n

In response to the applicant's warning, the company issued a cease-and-desist declaration, but expressly limited it to advertising on the Internet.<\/p>\n

In the opinion of the warning party, such a limited declaration of discontinuance does not eliminate the risk of repetition.<\/p>\n

The court's decision on the cease-and-desist declaration<\/h2>\n

The OLG Frankfurt a.M. ruled in favor of the party issuing the warning and decided that Decision of 25.01.2016 - Ref. 6 W 1\/16<\/a>that a declaration to cease and desist with a penalty clause, which is expressly limited to advertising on the Internet, does not eliminate the risk of repetition and is therefore not sufficient.<\/p>\n

The Frankfurt judges' decision was based on the fact that an act of infringement gives rise to the presumption of a risk of repetition not only for the identical form of infringement, but also for all acts of infringement that are essentially similar.<\/p>\n

The risk of repetition also covers other forms of advertising than advertising on a website, e.g. the distribution of the brochure placed on the Internet as a printed work.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

A restriction of cease-and-desist declarations with a penalty clause to advertising on the Internet should be avoided in order to actually eliminate the risk of repetition. Otherwise, there is a risk that the warned party will be sued for injunctive relief.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the recipient of a warning letter submits a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause, the risk of repetition resulting from the infringement is regularly eliminated. But can the warned party limit the cease-and-desist declaration to advertising on the internet or is this not sufficient? The Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court provides an answer to this question.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-custom-blog.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3049],"tags":[2798,886,558,2799,334,687,316,650],"ppma_author":[3074],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-beschraenkung","tag-internet","tag-strafbewehrte-unterlassungserklaerung","tag-umfang","tag-unterlassung","tag-unterlassungsanspruch","tag-unterlassungserklaerung","tag-wiederholungsgefahr"],"authors":[{"term_id":3074,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"christopher","display_name":"Christopher A. Wolf, MBA","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d77b27aefd4397c799a733f749d595a8fcc78bb7c7d693f68096bc2bfc958647?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Christopher A.","last_name":"Wolf, MBA","user_url":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avantcore.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}