Martin Y Paz Diffusion SA v Depuydt and another (Case C-661/11); [2013] WLR (D) 351
“Article 5 of First Council Directive 89/104/EEC of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the member states relating to trade marks (OJ 1989 L40, p 1), as amended, precluded a proprietor of trade marks from being deprived of any possibility of asserting the exclusive right conferred upon it by those marks against a third party and of itself exercising that exclusive right in respect of goods which were identical to those of that third party, in a situation where the proprietor had consented to a shared use with that third party of signs which were identical to its marks in respect of certain goods in classes for which those marks were registered and no longer consented to that use.”
WLR Daily, 19th September 2013
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