CELEX: 62014CB0491
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-491/14: Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 March 2015 (requet for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil No 3 de Madrid — Spain) — Rosa dels Vents Assessoria SL v U Hostels Albergues Juveniles SL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure — Trade marks — Directive 2008/95/EC — Article 5(1) — Concept of ‘third party’ — Proprietor of a later trade mark)

29.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/13
            
         Order of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 March 2015 (requet for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil No 3 de Madrid — Spain) — Rosa dels Vents Assessoria SL v U Hostels Albergues Juveniles SL
   (Case C-491/14) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Court’s Rules of Procedure - Trade marks - Directive 2008/95/EC - Article 5(1) - Concept of ‘third party’ - Proprietor of a later trade mark))
   (2015/C 213/19)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Juzgado de lo Mercantil No 3 de Madrid
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Rosa dels Vents Assessoria SL
   
      Defendant: U Hostels Albergues Juveniles SL
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   Article 5(1) of Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and the Council, of 22 October 2008, to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks, must be interpreted as meaning that the exclusive right of the proprietor of a trade mark to prevent any third party from using, in course of trade, signs identical with or similar to his mark extends to a third-party proprietor of a later trade mark, without the need for that latter mark to have been declared invalid beforehand.
   
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2015.