CELEX: 62015CN0419
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-419/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 30 July 2015 — Thomas Philipps GmbH & Co. KG v Grüne Welle Vertriebs GmbH

19.10.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 346/8
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 30 July 2015 — Thomas Philipps GmbH & Co. KG v Grüne Welle Vertriebs GmbH
   (Case C-419/15)
   (2015/C 346/09)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Thomas Philipps GmbH & Co. KG
   
      Defendant: Grüne Welle Vertriebs GmbH
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the first sentence of Article 33(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs (1) preclude a licensee who has not been entered in the register of Community designs from bringing claims for the infringement of a registered Community design?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               In the event that the first question is answered in the negative: may the exclusive licensee of a Community design, with the consent of the right holder, bring an action on its own claiming damages for its own loss under Article 32(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs or can the licensee only intervene in an action brought by the right holder for an infringement of its Community design under Article 32(4) of that regulation?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2002 L 3, p. 1.