New Information Secret report reveals: German BND also uses XKEYSCORE for data collection

(Updated: September 23, 2016) Over the past few years we learned a lot about Germany's foreign intelligence service BND , although not f...

New Information Parody and free use in Germany: Federal Court of Justice decides first parody case after Deckmyn

The original work and its alleged parody at stake in Deckmyn When the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) back in 2014 issued its ...

New Information Gathering evidence in patent proceedings? EPLAW's Europe/Japan mock trials may be what you need

Somewhat, but not completely revealing, Merpel impersonates  a defendant's  voluntary  infringement evidence.... September seems to be t...

New Information Federal Court of Justice greenlights colour mark red

Red . In the ongoing dispute between the Sparkassen Group and Banco Santander, which led to the CJEU's decision in cases C‑217/13 and C‑...

New Information German journalists about working with the Snowden documents

Last Monday, the website The Intercept started publishing larger batches of documents from the Snowden trove, so they can now also be exami...

New Information Something about the use of selectors: correlations and equations

(Updated: August 24, 2016) The Snowden revelations made people familiar with what NSA calls "selectors": phone numbers, e-mail add...