Zaak C-24/16, Nintendo. Prejudiciële vragen Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf - Duitsland.
Modelrecht. EULawradar bericht: "Nintendo is suing companies in the German courts for the alleged infringement of its design rights. However, the German courts wonder if they have jurisdiction to decide the case and the scope of any measures they might impose. The first problem is that the German defendant is only a subsidiary and its parent company is domiciled in France. The second problem is that although the defendant’s website has images on it that correspond to Nintendo’s design rights, these have been put there so that consumers know immediately that the defendant’s goods can be used in Nintendo’s games consoles."
Onofficiële vertaling prejudiciële vragen door EUlawradar:
"1. Can a national court – whose jurisdiction in a Community design enforcement action arises from a defendant solely on the basis of Article 79(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs when read together with Article 6(1) of EU Regulation 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil matters – take measures against the first defendant which apply throughout the Union and which prevail over the supplier relationships, when an individual domiciled in another Member State has supplied potentially infringing goods to defendants in the Member State concerned?
2. Is Council Regulation (EC) No. 6/2002 on the Community design […], and Article 20 (1)(c) in particular, to be interpreted as meaning that a third party may depict the Community design for commercial purposes, when he wants to sell accessories to goods that correspond to the Community design owned by the right holder? And if so, then which criteria are applicable?
3. How is the place “in which the infringement was committed” in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No. 864/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations, to be determined in situations where the infringer of the Community design infringing goods
a) runs a website and this website is also directed not only to the Member State in which the infringer is domiciled but also to other Member States,
b) forwards to Member States other than the Member State in which he is domiciled?
Is Article 15 (a) and (g) of the Regulation to be interpreted as meaning that the choice of law is also applicable to the...