CELEX: 62021CN0183
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Case C-183/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Saarbrücken (Germany) lodged on 23 March 2021 — Maxxus Group GmbH & Co. KG v Globus Holding GmbH & Co. KG

14.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 228/21
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Saarbrücken (Germany) lodged on 23 March 2021 — Maxxus Group GmbH & Co. KG v Globus Holding GmbH & Co. KG
      (Case C-183/21)
      (2021/C 228/28)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landgericht Saarbrücken
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Maxxus Group GmbH & Co. KG
      
         Defendant: Globus Holding GmbH & Co. KG
      
         Question referred
      
      Are Directive 2008/95/EC, (1) in particular in Article 12, and
      Directive (EU) 2015/2436, (2) in particular in Articles 16, 17 and 19,
      to be interpreted as meaning that the effet utile of those provisions prohibits an interpretation of national procedural law which
      
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                  imposes on the applicant in civil proceedings for cancellation of a national registered trade mark on grounds of revocation for non-use a burden of raising and presenting an issue, as distinguished from the burden of proof; and
               
            
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                  requires the applicant, in the context of that burden of raising and presenting an issue,
                  
                              a.
                           
                           
                              to make, in such proceedings, substantiated submissions regarding the defendant’s non-use of the trade mark, to the extent that it is possible for the applicant to do so; and
                           
                        
                              b.
                           
                           
                              to carry out, for that purpose, its own research into the market, in a manner which is appropriate to the request for cancellation and to the specific nature of the trade mark concerned.
                           
                        
            
         (1)  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 (Codified version) (OJ 2008 L 299, p. 25).
      
         (2)  Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (OJ 2015 L 336, p. 1).