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Subject-matter

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Cour de cassation – Interpretation of Article 5(1) and Article 8(1) of First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (OJ 1989 L 40, p. 1) – Proprietor’s rights over a registered mark where there is an extended period of sharing the use of the mark with a third party in a form of co-ownership for part of the goods covered and irrevocable consent given by the proprietor to that third party to use of that mark – National rule prohibiting the proprietor of the mark from making wrongful or abusive use of its right – Prohibition of use of the mark by the proprietor to the detriment of the third party – Penalty

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Agreement on the European Economic Area -A65P2 : paragraph 7
• Directive 89/104 : paragraphs 1, 9, 37, 42
• Directive 89/104 -A05 : paragraphs 1, 4, 38, 43, 44, 46, 50, 54 - 62
• Directive 89/104 -A05P1 : paragraph 35
• Directive 89/104 -A05P1LA : paragraph 59
• Directive 89/104 -A06 : paragraphs 5, 54, 55, 60
• Directive 89/104 -A07 : paragraphs 6, 54, 55, 57, 60
• Directive 89/104 -A07P1 : paragraph 7
• Directive 89/104 -A08 : paragraphs 1, 8, 43, 48, 49, 55
• Directive 89/104 -A08P1 : paragraph 35
• Directive 89/104 -C6 : paragraphs 3, 61
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -173/98 : paragraph 57
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -379/98 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -414/99 : paragraph 54
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -6/01 : paragraph 42
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -94/04 : paragraph 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -127/09 : paragraphs 54, 57
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -323/09 : paragraph 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -482/09 : paragraphs 54, 58
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -414/11 : paragraph 43

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 89/104 -A05

Opinion

• TFEU, Article 267 : point 39
  
• Directive 89/104 : points 3, 9, 39, 59, 79 - 83, 89 - 91
  
• Directive 89/104 -A03 : points 6, 82
  
• Directive 89/104 -A03P2LD : point 6
  
• Directive 89/104 -A04 : points 6, 82
  
• Directive 89/104 -A04P1LA : point 71
  
• Directive 89/104 -A05 : points 56, 82, 83
  
• Directive 89/104 -A05P1 : points 7, 9, 33, 38, 45 - 63, 71, 87 - 93
  
• Directive 89/104 -A05P1LA
  
• Directive 89/104 -A05P2 : point 59
  
• Directive 89/104 -A06 : point 56
  
• Directive 89/104 -A07 : points 56, 82
  
• Directive 89/104 -A07P1 : points 59 - 61
  
• Directive 89/104 -A08 : points 8, 63
  
• Directive 89/104 -A08P1 : points 33, 38, 41
  
• Directive 89/104 -A09 : point 82
  
• Directive 89/104 -A09P1 : point 82
  
• Directive 89/104 -A10P1 : point 90
  
• Directive 89/104 -A10P3 : points 59, 64
  
• Directive 89/104 -A12P2 : point 59
  
• Directive 89/104 -C4 : point 42
  
• Directive 89/104 -C6 : points 4, 9, 89
  
• Directive 89/104 -C7 : point 5
  
• Directive 89/104 -C11 : point 82
  
• Directive 2008/95 -A05P1 : point 9
  
• Directive 2008/95 -A17 : point 9
  
• Directive 2008/95 -C7 : point 9
  
• Regulation 207/2009 : point 59
  
• Regulation 207/2009 -A09P1 : points 59, 65
  
• Regulation 207/2009 -A13P1 : point 59
  
• Regulation 207/2009 -A15P2 : point 59
  
• Regulation 207/2009 -A51P1LC : point 59
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -26/64 : point 39
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -83/78 : point 40
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -126/80 : point 40
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -327/82 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -14/83 : point 39
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -134/94 : point 40
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -355/96 : point 56
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -367/96 : point 78
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -63/97 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -173/98 : point 61
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -287/98 : point 55
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -414/99 : point 84
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -414/99 : points 56, 61
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -62/00 : point 41
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -291/00 : point 71
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -104/01 : point 51
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -206/01 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -255/02 : point 78
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -321/03 : points 50, 51
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -416/04 : point 64
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -487/07 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -59/08 : points 56, 61
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -236/08 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -278/08 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -324/08 : point 61
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -127/09 : points 56, 61
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -323/09 : point 68
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -482/09 : points 55, 56, 65, 68, 71 - 75
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 23/12/2011

Date of the Opinion

• 18/04/2013

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

19/09/2013

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 89 from 24.03.2012, p.3

Judgment: OJ C 344 from 23.11.2013, p.17

Name of the parties

Martin Y Paz Diffusion

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Picod, Fabrice: Pas de reconnaissance mutuelle pure et simple mais un encadrement des restrictions applicables aux opérateurs, La Semaine Juridique - édition générale 2013 nº 40 p.1800 (FR)
2. Plasser, David: Der EuGH erleichtert Markeninhabern die Beendigung von Vereinbarungen zur gemeinsamen Verwertung ihrer Marke, Österreichische Blätter für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht 2014 p.52-55 (DE)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Cour de cassation - Belgium

Subject-matter

• Approximation of laws
  
• Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  

Provisions of national law referred to

LIBELLÉ À EFFACER, art. 1134, al. 3, et art. 1382 et 1383 Loi du 14/07/1991, art. 23, 1º, 8º et 93

Provisions of international law referred to

Convention Benelux en matière de propriété intellectuelle (marques et dessins ou modèles) (25/02/2005), art. 2.20, al. 1 et art. 2.32, al. 1

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  
• Reference for a preliminary ruling : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ilešič

Advocate General

Cruz Villalón

Language(s) of the Case

• French
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• English