Rechtsprechung

  • Rechtssachenbeschreibung
    • Nationale Kennung: Supreme Court, Judgment 4 Ob 136/17d
    • Mitgliedstaat: Österreich
    • Gebräuchliche Bezeichnung:N/A
    • Art des Beschlusses: Beschluss des Obersten Gerichts
    • Beschlussdatum: 20/02/2018
    • Gericht: Supreme Court
    • Betreff:
    • Kläger:
    • Beklagter:
    • Schlagworte: comparative advertising, misleading advertising.
  • Artikel der Richtlinie
    Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, link
  • Leitsatz

    ECLI:AT:OGH0002:2018:0040OB00136.17D.0220.000


    The generally permissible comparative advertising of medicinal products is unfair if the public is misled as to which other medicinal products the advertised product is compared with.

  • Sachverhalt

    The defendant advertised a blood clotting inhibitor with the words "Simple*. Clear*. Safer*". Only from the third, very small footnote did it emerge that the advertising did not refer to the competing product but to the active ingredient itself.

  • Rechtsfrage

    Comparative advertising of medicinal products.

  • Entscheidung

    The generally permissible comparative advertising of medicinal products is unfair if the public is misled as to which other medicinal products the advertised product is compared with.

    If in view of the specific presentation of the advertisement, only a footnote is used to explain that the comparison does not relate to another product within the group of anticoagulants, the public will be misled unfairly.

    Moreover, the Supreme Court recognised that, apart from the misleading nature of the reference product, the claims that the medicinal product was 'simple', 'clear' and 'safer' did not, in the specific case, meet the standard required for the advertising of medical products.

    In connection with drug advertising, both the drug advertising law and the UWG must be taken into account. Accordingly, an advertised product must be presented objectively and without exaggeration.

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  • Ergebnis

    The Supreme Court upholds the extraordinary appeal for review. This decision re-establishes the First Instance judgment.