Jurisprudencia

  • Detalles del asunto
    • ID nacional: Supreme Court, Judgement 435/2018
    • Estado miembro: España
    • Denominación común:STS 435/2018
    • Tipo de resolución: Resolución del Tribunal Supremo
    • Fecha de la resolución: 19/11/2018
    • Órgano jurisdiccional: Supreme Court
    • Asunto:
    • Demandante:
    • Demandado:
    • Palabras clave: Misleading advertising, unfair competition, acts of deception, error, economic behavior.
  • Artículos de la Directiva
    Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, Article 2 Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, Article 2, (b)
  • Nota preliminar

    Misleading advertising. Unfair competition: acts of deception typified in article 5, paragraph 1, of Law on Unfair Competition. The information provided by the defendant stating that it was the first company in its sector to obtain a certain business quality award, is not only apt to generate error in its recipients about the applicant's business quality, but this erroneous information is also able to influence the economic behaviour of its recipients; it transmits information, by comparison, to the detriment of the applicant. .

  • Hechos

    Egamaster received the recognition «Q of silver» in 2005 and «Q of gold» in 2009. Bellota received the recognition «Q of silver» in 2008 and «Q of gold» in 2012.

    In November 2012, Bellota spread a press release in which, after announcing that it had received the "Golden Q" award, it stated: "The company, manufacturer of manual tools and agricultural spare parts, is the first in its sector to receive that award.”

    Egamaster filed a lawsuit in which it exercised unfair competition against Bellota, based on the fact that the latter had made misleading advertising - "acts of deception".

  • Cuestión jurídica

    This demand leads to the interpretation and application of article 5.1 of the Law of Unfair Competition.

  • Decisión

    The Supreme Court estimated the declaratory action and declared that Bellota had committed an act of deception classified as unfair competition by article 5, paragraph 1 of the Law of Unfair Competition, when spreading a press release in which in addition to communicating that it had received the "Golden Q" award, it affirmed that it was the first company in the sector of hand tools and agricultural spare parts to receive this award.

    It also estimated the cessation action, which entails ordering the cessation of the dissemination of this press release and, in general, the issuance of this misleading information.

    In addition, it was necessary to estimate the action of removal of effects, for which it was an appropriate means to order the publication of a letter of amendment in the same media in which the deceptive information was disseminated.

    URL: https://supremo.vlex.es/vid/733095109

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  • Resultado

    The Supreme Court estimated the declaratory action and declared that Bellota had committed an act of deception classified as unfair competition.