Data protection, European Court of Justice, Pharmaceuticals, Unfair competition, Unfair trading practices
Using Data Protection Law to Fight Data-Related Anticompetitive Conduct: Expanding the “Meta Model”? Lindenapotheke (C-21/23)
The Lindenapotheke judgment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) marks a significant development in the interplay between data protection and unfair competition law. In this data protection case, a pharmacy filed an injunction before a national court against a competitor, operating under the name Lindenapotheke, to stop the latter’s online sale of pharmacy-only medicines….