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JurisdictionSuiza
Date29 septembre 1971
CourtCommercial Court (Switzerland)
Switzerland, Tribunal de commerce of St-Gall.
Bibliographisches Institut AG (Mannheim)
and
VEB Bibliographisches Institut (Leipzig)

States as international persons In general Recognition of acts of foreign States and governments Expropriation without compensation Effect on economic interests situated outside the jurisdiction of expropriating State The law of Switzerland

Summary: The facts:In a dispute involving companies established in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic respectively, both companies claimed to be the rightful successor of a company established in Gotha in 1826, which had been nationalized without compensation by the German Democratic Republic, and to be entitled to use its name.

Held:The company established in the German Democratic Republic was not entitled to use the name.

There was longstanding jurisprudence of the Federal Tribunal to the effect that expropriation without compensation of economic interests located in Switzerland would not be recognized in Switzerland. The...

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