CELEX: 62014CN0567
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-567/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Paris (France) lodged on 9 December 2014 — Genentech Inc. v Hoechst GmbH, formerly Hoechst AG, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH

2.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 73/12
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Paris (France) lodged on 9 December 2014 — Genentech Inc. v Hoechst GmbH, formerly Hoechst AG, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
      (Case C-567/14)
      (2015/C 073/18)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Cour d’appel de Paris
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Genentech Inc.
      
         Defendant: Hoechst GmbH, formerly Hoechst AG, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
      
         Question referred
      
      ‘Must the provisions of Article 81 of the Treaty (now Article 101 TFEU) be interpreted as precluding effect being given, where patents are revoked, to a licence agreement which requires the licencee to pay royalties for the sole use of the rights attached to the licensed patent?’