03/02/2020 CURIA - Documents InfoCuria Case-law English (en) Home > Search form > List of results > Documents Language of document : English ECLI:EU:C:2011:474 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 12 July 2011 (*) (Trade marks – Internet – Offer for sale, on an online marketplace targeted at consumers in the European Union, of trade-marked goods intended, by the proprietor, for sale in third States – Removal of the packaging of the goods – Directive 89/104/EEC – Regulation (EC) No 40/94 – Liability of the online-marketplace operator – Directive 2000/31/EC (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) – Injunctions against that operator – Directive 2004/48/EC (‘Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights’)) In Case C‑324/09, REFERENCE for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC, from the High Court of Justice (England & Wales), Chancery Division, (United Kingdom), made by decision of 16 July 2009, received at the Court on 12 August 2009, in the proceedings L’Oréal SA, Lancôme parfums et beauté & Cie SNC, Laboratoire Garnier & Cie, L’Oréal (UK) Ltd v eBay International AG, eBay Europe SARL, eBay (UK) Ltd, Stephen Potts, Tracy Ratchford, Marie Ormsby, James Clarke, Joanna Clarke, Glen Fox, Rukhsana Bi, THE COURT (Grand Chamber), composed of V. Skouris, President, A. Tizzano, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, K. Lenaerts, J.-C. Bonichot, K. Schiemann, J.‑J. Kasel and D. Šváby, Presidents of Chambers, A. Rosas, R. Silva de Lapuerta, M. Ilešič (Rapporteur), M. Safjan and M. Berger, Judges, Advocate General: N. Jääskinen, Registrar: L. Hewlett, Principal Administrator, having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 22 June 2010, after considering the observations submitted on behalf of: L’Oréal SA and Others, by H. Carr QC, D. Anderson QC and T. Mitcheson, Barrister, eBay International AG and Others, by T. van Innis and G. Glas, avocats, the United Kingdom Government, by H. Walker and L. Seeboruth, acting as Agents, and by C. May, Barrister, the French Government, by G. de Bergues, B. Beaupère-Manokha, J. Gstalster and B. Cabouat, acting as Agents, the Italian Government, by G. Palmieri, acting as Agent, and by S. Fiorentino, avvocato dello Stato, the Polish Government, by M. Dowgielewicz and A. Rutkowska, acting as Agents, the Portuguese Government, by L. Inez Fernandes, acting as Agent, the European Commission, by H. Krämer, acting as Agent, after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 9 December 2010 gives the following Judgment This reference for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Articles 5 and 7 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 L 40, p. 1), as amended by the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992 (OJ 1994 L 1, p. 3) (‘Directive 89/104’), Articles 9 and 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1), Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) (OJ 2000 L 178, p. 1) and Article 11 of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45). The reference was made in proceedings between, on the one hand, L’Oréal SA and its subsidiaries Lancôme parfums et beauté & Cie SNC, Laboratoire Garnier & Cie and L’Oréal (UK) Ltd (hereinafter referred to collectively as ‘L’Oréal’) and, on the other, three subsidiaries of eBay Inc., namely eBay International AG, eBay Europe SARL and curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=107261&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1392992 1/15