United Kingdom commercial agents regulationsgoods or servicescharacterisation

Kompaktwerk v LivePerson

Kompaktwerk GmbH v LivePerson Netherlands BV [2024] EWHC 2278 (Comm)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court of Justice (Commercial Court, King's Bench Division)

Year2024

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A time-limited subscription to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a supply of services and not a 'sale of goods', so a reseller of such subscriptions is not an agent for the sale of goods and is outside the protection of the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993.

Area of Law

General

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