Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 2 April 2020

Coty Germany GmbH v Amazon Services Europe Sàrl and Others

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof

Reference for a preliminary ruling — EU trade mark — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 9 — Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 — Article 9 — Rights conferred by a trade mark — Use — Stocking of goods for the purposes of offering them or putting them on the market — Storage with a view to dispatching goods sold in an online marketplace which infringe trade mark rights

Case C-567/18


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
National decision following the preliminary ruling
ECLI:DE:BGH:2021:210121UIZR20.17.0
21/01/2021 Coty Germany External Link
Judgment (OJ)
19/06/2020 Coty Germany
Order
ECLI:EU:C:2020:473
15/06/2020 Coty Germany
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2020:267
02/04/2020 Coty Germany
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2020:267
02/04/2020 Coty Germany
Application (OJ)
09/11/2018 Coty Germany
Request for a preliminary ruling
07/09/2018 Coty Germany
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2019:1031
28/11/2019 Coty Germany
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.01 Reference to the Court of Justice
      3.04.01.03 Exclusive nature of the role of the national court in making the reference
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.02 Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.03 European Union trade mark
      4.11.03.03 Other questions of substantive law
        4.11.03.03.01 Effects of a mark
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.03 European Union trade mark
      4.11.03.03 Other questions of substantive law
        4.11.03.03.01 Effects of a mark
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.01 Reference to the Court of Justice
      3.04.01.03 Exclusive nature of the role of the national court in making the reference


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

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Date of the Opinion

  • 28/11/2019

Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

02/04/2020


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Information not available

Name of the parties

Coty Germany

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Abenhaïm, Marc: Propriété intellectuelle - Droit de marque, Europe 2020, n° 6 Juin, Comm. 202 (FR)
  2. Linders, Douwe M. ; Vermeij, Jesse J.: De gemiste kans van Coty/Amazon: de merkenrechtelijke positie van online verkoopplatforms ongewijzigd : noot, Berichten industriële eigendom 2020 p. 173-176 (NL)
  3. Bronneman, M.: Coty / Amazon, Intellectuele eigendom & Reclamerecht 2020 p. 204-206 (NL)
  4. Howard, Michael ; Hyland, Mark: The boundaries of "use" : when do e-commerce platforms become liable for trade mark infringement? : Coty Germany GmbH v Amazon Services Europe Sarl (C-567/18), European Intellectual Property Review 2020 p. 849-855 (EN)
  5. Riis, Thomas: Primary liability of intermediaries for trade mark infringement in light of the decision in joined cases Louboutin (C-148/21) and (C-184/21), European Intellectual Property Review 2023, Volume 45, Issue 6, p. 337-343 (EN)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Bundesgerichtshof - Germany

Subject-matter

  • Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  • - Trade marks

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Cinquième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Ilešič

Advocate General

Campos Sánchez-Bordona

Language(s) of the Case

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • Spanish