CELEX: 62016CN0163
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-163/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag (Nederland) lodged on 21 March 2016 — Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS v Van Haren Schoenen BV

13.6.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/30
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag (Nederland) lodged on 21 March 2016 — Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS v Van Haren Schoenen BV
      (Case C-163/16)
      (2016/C 211/39)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Rechtbank Den Haag
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Christian Louboutin, Christian Louboutin SAS
      
         Defendant: Van Haren Schoenen BV
      
         Question referred
      
      Is the notion of ‘shape’ within the meaning of Article 3(1)(e)(iii) of Directive 2008/95/EC (1) (‘Form’, ‘vorm’ and ‘forme’ in the German, Dutch and French language versions of the Trade Marks Directive respectively) limited to the three-dimensional properties of the goods, such as their contours, measurements and volume (expressed three-dimensionally), or does it include other (non three-dimensional) properties of the goods, such as their colour?
      
         (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 (Codified version) (OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25).