Case law

  • Case Details
    • National ID: Juzgado de lo mercantil de Madrid Auto de 3 de septiembre de 2015
    • Member State: Spain
    • Common Name:link
    • Decision type: Court decision, first degree
    • Decision date: 03/09/2015
    • Court: Mercantile court of first instance of Madrid
    • Subject:
    • Plaintiff: ENERGIZER GROUP ESPAÑA, S.A.
    • Defendant: PROCTER & GAMBLE ESPAÑA, S.A.
    • Keywords: advertising, legal actions, misleading advertising, unfair commercial practices
  • Directive Articles
    Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, Article 4
  • Headnote
    1) Comparing the different features of the products is necessary so that comparative publicity is lawful.

    2) Exaggerations (but not exclusionary messages) are acceptable in publicity and do not qualify as misleading/ unfair publicity.
  • Facts
    The plaintiff and the defendant commercialize razors for men. They claim against each other for different advertisement messages, which they consider misleading publicity.
  • Legal issue
    Some of the plaintiff and the defendant's messages qualify as misleading or unfair comparative publicity, as the case may be. The court orders that they cease using said messages in any publicity and to publish the decision in the media.
  • Decision

    1) Is it licit comparative publicity that where the products are compared in general?

    2) Do exaggerations qualify as misleading publicity?

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  • Result
    The court declares illicit some of the messages used by each party and order that they cease suing them in publicity. They are also ordered to publish the decision in the media.