CELEX: 62019CN0684
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-684/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 17 September 2019 — mk advokaten GbR v MBK Rechtsanwälte GbR

9.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 413/27
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 17 September 2019 — mk advokaten GbR v MBK Rechtsanwälte GbR
      (Case C-684/19)
      (2019/C 413/32)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: mk advokaten GbR
      
         Respondent: MBK Rechtsanwälte GbR
      
         Question referred
      
      Does a third party referred to in an entry published on a website that contains a sign identical to a trade mark ‘use’ that trade mark, within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Directive 2008/95/EC, (1) if the entry was not placed there by the third party itself, but was taken by the website’s operator from another entry that the third party had placed in infringement of the trade mark?
      
         (1)  Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25).