CELEX: 62015CN0163
Language: en
Date: 2015-04-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-163/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 9 April 2015 — Youssef Hassan v Breiding Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH

3.8.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 254/3
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 9 April 2015 — Youssef Hassan v Breiding Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
   (Case C-163/15)
   (2015/C 254/03)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Youssef Hassan
   
      Defendant: Breiding Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the first sentence of Article 23(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (1) preclude a licensee who is not entered in the Register of Community trade marks from invoking claims for infringement of a Community trade mark?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               In the event that the first question is answered in the affirmative: Does the first sentence of Article 23(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark preclude a national legal practice in accordance with which the licensee can enforce the trade mark proprietor’s rights against the infringer by virtue of the power conferred on it for that purpose (Prozessstandschaft)?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2009 L 78, p. 1.