CELEX: 62018CN0172
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-172/18: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (United Kingdom) made on 5 March 2018 — AMS Neve Ltd, Barnett Waddingham Trustees, Mark Crabtree v Heritage Audio SL, Pedro Rodríguez Arribas

4.6.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 190/8
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (United Kingdom) made on 5 March 2018 — AMS Neve Ltd, Barnett Waddingham Trustees, Mark Crabtree v Heritage Audio SL, Pedro Rodríguez Arribas
   (Case C-172/18)
   (2018/C 190/11)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Court of Appeal
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: AMS Neve Ltd, Barnett Waddingham Trustees, Mark Crabtree
   
      Defendants: Heritage Audio SL, Pedro Rodríguez Arribas
   
      Questions referred
   
   In circumstances where an undertaking is established and domiciled in Member State A and has taken steps in that territory to advertise and offer for sale goods under a sign identical to an EU trade mark on a website targeted at traders and consumers in Member State B:
   
               i)
            
            
               does an EU trade mark court in Member State B have jurisdiction to hear a claim for infringement of the EU trade mark in respect of the advertisement and offer for sale of the goods in that territory?
            
         
               ii)
            
            
               if not, which other criteria are to be taken into account by that EU trade mark court in determining whether it has jurisdiction to hear that claim?
            
         
               iii)
            
            
               in so far as the answer to (ii) requires that EU trade mark court to identify whether the undertaking has taken active steps in Member State B, which criteria are to be taken into account in determining whether the undertaking has taken such active steps?