CELEX: 62016CN0341
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-341/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 16 June 2016 — Hanssen Beleggingen BV v Tanja Prast-Knipping

5.9.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 326/14
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 16 June 2016 — Hanssen Beleggingen BV v Tanja Prast-Knipping
   (Case C-341/16)
   (2016/C 326/24)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Hanssen Beleggingen BV
   
      Defendant: Tanja Prast-Knipping
   
      Question referred
   
   Does the notion of proceedings which are ‘concerned with the registration or validity of … trade marks’, within the meaning of Article 22.4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, (1) also cover a claim, brought against the formal proprietor of a Benelux trade mark registered in the Benelux trade mark register, which seeks an order requiring that defendant to make a declaration to the Benelux trade mark office that she has no entitlement to the contested mark and that she waives registration as the proprietor of that mark?
   
      (1)  OJ 2001 L 12, p. 1.