{"id":2035,"date":"2018-05-21T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2021-09-20T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:45:23","slug":"frankfurt-am-main-regional-court-atty-dr-seyfert-obtains-for-his-client-an-interim-injunction-against-the-misuse-of-data-on-a-company-laptop-ref-2-03-o-52-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/frankfurt-am-main-regional-court-atty-dr-seyfert-obtains-for-his-client-an-interim-injunction-against-the-misuse-of-data-on-a-company-laptop-ref-2-03-o-52-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt am Main Regional Court: Atty. Dr. Seyfert obtains for his client an interim injunction against the misuse of data on a company laptop (Ref. 2-03 O 52\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our client (a public limited company) is a well-known construction planning company. Due to the theft of a company laptop by the former partner of a company employee, there was a threat of data misuse on an enormous scale to the detriment of our client.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/expertise\/intellectual-property-law\/data-protection-law-gdpr-conformity-of-your-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Company-relevant data&nbsp;<\/a>on the company laptop had already been transferred to an external hard drive by the data thief without permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a warning from the former partner of the company employee was unsuccessful, we applied to the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main for an interim injunction against the threatening&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/expertise\/intellectual-property-law\/data-protection-law-gdpr-conformity-of-your-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misuse of data<\/a>. Specifically, we requested, among other things, that the defendant (data thief) refrain from processing (excluding data processing in the form of deletion) and\/or disseminating and\/or otherwise using&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/expertise\/intellectual-property-law\/data-protection-law-gdpr-conformity-of-your-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal data<\/a>&nbsp;of our client on its business and financial circumstances without its prior consent, upon avoidance of an orderly fine to be determined for each case of infringement and, if this cannot be recovered, an orderly detention or orderly imprisonment of up to six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The District Court of Frankfurt am Main subsequently issued the requested interim injunction within a few days. The defendant has in the meantime \u2013 at our request \u2013 recognized the interim injunction as the final and definitive legal settlement between the parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our client (a public limited company) is a well-known construction planning company. Due to the theft of a company laptop by the former partner of a company employee, there was a threat of data misuse on an enormous scale to the detriment of our client.&nbsp;Company-relevant data&nbsp;on the company laptop had already been transferred to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intellectual-property-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zellerseyfert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}