CELEX: 62021CN0044
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-44/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht München (Germany) lodged on 28 January 2021 — Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG v HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG

10.5.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/27
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht München (Germany) lodged on 28 January 2021 — Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG v HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG
      (Case C-44/21)
      (2021/C 182/40)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landgericht München
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
      
         Defendants: HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG
      
         Question referred
      
      Is it compatible with Article 9(1) of Directive 2004/48/EC (1) if German higher regional courts (Oberlandesgerichte), which have jurisdiction at last instance in proceedings for interim relief, refuse, in principle, to grant interim measures for patent infringement if the patent in dispute has not survived opposition or invalidity proceedings at first instance?
      
         (1)  Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45).