CELEX: 62011CA0561
Language: en
Date: 2013-02-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-561/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 February 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Alicante — Spain) — Fédération Cynologique Internationale v Federación Canina Internacional de Perros de Pura Raza (Community trade marks — Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 — Article 9(1) — Concept of ‘third party’ — Proprietor of a later Community trade mark)

20.4.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 114/15
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 21 February 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Alicante — Spain) — Fédération Cynologique Internationale v Federación Canina Internacional de Perros de Pura Raza
   (Case C-561/11) (1)
   
   (Community trade marks - Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - Article 9(1) - Concept of ‘third party’ - Proprietor of a later Community trade mark)
   2013/C 114/21
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Alicante
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Fédération Cynologique Internationale
   
      Defendant: Federación Canina Internacional de Perros de Pura Raza
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Alicante — Interpretation of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1) — Infringement or threat of infringement of a Community trade mark — Exclusive right conferred by a Community trade mark — Meaning of third party
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 9(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark must be interpreted as meaning that the exclusive right of the proprietor of a Community trade mark to prohibit all third parties from using, in the course of trade, signs identical with or similar to its trade mark extends to a third-party proprietor of a later registered Community trade mark, without the need for that latter mark to have been declared invalid beforehand.
   
      (1)  OJ C 25, 28.1.2012.