[thelist] A legal question (was: Lawyers and stuff)

on 01/07/2000 12:05 PM, Peter Van Dijck at pedro3@geo.net.co wrote:

> 
> Is this evil?
> Is this unfair competition?
> Can we be sued (nothing surprises me from the US) for his?

If memory serves, you should be more worried about Germany. I think it's
illegal there to mention the competition by name. You can cite "Competitor
A", and have a list of attributes, but you can't name them specifically.

Third parties can do comparative appraisals though, and a company may cite
that article.

Anyone know if this is still the case? I remember having it explained to me
a long time ago, so it might not be valid any more.


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bob davis
bobd@members.evolt.org