CELEX: 62008CN0062
Language: en
Date: 2008-02-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-62/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Cassatie van België lodged on 18 February 2008 — UDV North America Inc v Brandtraders NV

26.4.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 107/18
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Cassatie van België lodged on 18 February 2008 — UDV North America Inc v Brandtraders NV
   (Case C-62/08)
   (2008/C 107/26)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   Hof van Cassatie van België
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Appellant: UDV North America Inc
   
      Respondent: Brandtraders NV
   Questions referred
   
               (1)
            
            
               For there to be use of the sign within the meaning of Article 9(1)(a) and (2)(d) of Council Regulation 40/94 (1) of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark, is it necessary that a third party, within the meaning of Article 9(1)(a) of the Regulation:
               
                           (a)
                        
                        
                           uses the sign on his own behalf?
                        
                     
                           (b)
                        
                        
                           uses the sign as an interested party in relation to trade in goods in which he is himself a contractual party?
                        
                     
         
               (2)
            
            
               Can a trade intermediary who acts in his own name, but not on his own behalf, be regarded as a third party who uses the sign within the meaning of Article 9(1)(a) and (2)(d)?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1.