CELEX: 62018CN0622
Language: en
Date: 2018-10-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-622/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 4 October 2018 — AR v Cooper International Spirits LLC, Établissements Gabriel Boudier SA, St Dalfour SAS

3.12.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 436/30
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 4 October 2018 — AR v Cooper International Spirits LLC, Établissements Gabriel Boudier SA, St Dalfour SAS
      (Case C-622/18)
      (2018/C 436/43)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Cour de cassation
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: AR
      
         Defendants: Cooper International Spirits LLC, Établissements Gabriel Boudier SA, St Dalfour SAS
      
         Question referred
      
      Must Article 5(1)(b) and Articles 10 and 12 of 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 (1) be interpreted as meaning that a proprietor which has never exploited its trade mark and whose rights over it were revoked on expiry of the period of five years following publication of its registration can obtain compensation for injury caused by infringement, claiming an adverse effect on the essential function of its trade mark, caused by use by a third party, before the effective date of the revocation, of a sign similar to that trade mark to designate goods or services identical or similar to those for which that trade mark was registered?
      
         (1)  OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25.