Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Antwerpen (Belgium), lodged on 17 November 2009 - Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV v Lucheng Meijing Industrial Company Ltd and Others

(Case C-446/09)

Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Rechtbank van eerste aanleg te Antwerpen

Parties to the main proceedings

Claimant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

Defendants: Lucheng Meijing Industrial Company Ltd and Others

Question referred

Does Article 6(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 3295/94 ¹ of 22 December 1994 (the old Customs Regulation) constitute a uniform rule of Community law which must be taken into account by the court of the Member State which, in accordance with Article 7 of the Regulation, has been approached by the holder of an intellectual-property right, and does that rule imply that, in making its decision, the court may not take into account the temporary storage status/transit status and must apply the fiction that the goods were manufactured in that same Member State, and must then decide, by applying the law of that Member State, whether those goods infringe the intellectual-property right in question?

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¹ - Council Regulation (EC) No 3295/94 of 22 December 1994 laying down measures to prohibit the release for free circulation, export, re-export or entry for a suspensive procedure of counterfeit and pirated goods (OJ 1994 L 341, p. 8).