1. Ott and Schäfer, ‘Emergence and Construction of Efficient Rules in the Legal System of German Civil Law’, International Review of Law and Economics (1993) p. 285 at p. 299.
2. Federal High Court, 17 May 2001, ref. I ZR 216/99, BGHZ 148, 1; MMR (2001) p. 666; CR (2001) p. 777; WRP (2001) p. 836; NJW (2001) p. 3262; BB (2001) p. 2080; DB (2001) p. 2141; GRUR (2001) p. 1061; 24 EIPR (2002) p. N-31.
3. Federal High Court, 22 November 2001, ref. IZR 138/99, BGHZ 149, 191; NJW (2002) p. 2031; GRUR (2002) p. 622; K&R (2002) p. 309; available at and , last visited on 11 March 2003.
4. Federal High Court, 11 April 2002, ref. IZR 317/99, NJW (2002) p. 2096.
5. See WIPO Briefing Paper for the Joint ITU/WIPO Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names, Geneva, 6–7 December 2001, p. 4 ff, available at , last visited on 11 March 2003.