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Due to numerous new forms of consumption, the tobacco market has changed in recent years. New products such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), disposable vapes and other nicotine-containing products for oral use are now available to consumers as alternatives to conventional (nicotine-containing) cigarettes and are one of the reasons why the number of cigarette packs sold in Switzerland is declining. These alternative products are becoming increasingly popular.
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Where a controller has disclosed or will disclose a data subject’s personal data to a recipient, the GDPR 1) imposes obligations on controller to inform about the recipient, and, 2) gives the data subject (correlative) rights to information about the recipient.
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There remains little doubt about Amazon’s liability for third party trademark infringements following the recent ECJ judgment of 22 December 2022 in the preliminary ruling in C-148/21 and C-184/21 Louboutin ./. Amazon. Specifically, the ECJ had to decide on questions regarding Amazon’s liability for offers of counterfeit shoes designed by Christian Louboutin.
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The trademark holder of the new trademark had unsuccessfully sued for cancellation of the earlier trademark before the Commercial Court of the Canton of Bern after the trademark holder of the earlier trademark had filed an opposition against the registration of the new trademark. The dispute concerned, firstly, whether the registered trademark belonged to the public domain within the meaning of Art. 2 lit. a TmPA and, secondly, whether it had been applied for in bad faith within the meaning of Art. 8 Swiss Civil Code. The judgement of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court of 8 September 2022 (4A_227/2022), which is gratifying for trademark owners, is of groundbreaking importance for both issues.
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In the course of the forced emergency merger between UBS and Credit Suisse for CHF 3 billion in UBS shares, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) ordered the write off of CS’s Additional Tier 1 bonds in the total amount of CHF 16 billion.
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