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This article is available in German language.

This article is available in German language.

The legal proceedings in trademark matters are decided in Germany in the first instance by two different courts, either by the Federal Patent Court in Munich or by a commercial division at a locally competent Regional Court. This dichotomy has a long tradition in Germany and is based on the fact that decisions of the German Patent and Trademark Office shall be checked by a particular court created for that purpose, namely, the German Federal Patent Court.

German Employment Law allows the employer to instruct his employee to temporarily work on a higher level position without being permanently bound to this. This has recently been decided by the Higher Labor Court of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.