The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 3 WLR 1218
[COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES]
SILHOUETTE INTERNATIONAL SCHMIED G.m.b.H. & CO. K.G.
v.
HARTLAUER HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT m.b.H.
(Case C-355/96)
1997 Oct. 14;
1998 Jan. 29;
July 16
1998 Jan. 29;
July 16
President G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias Presidents of Chambers C. Gulmann, M. Wathelet and R. Schintgen Judges G. F. Mancini, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, J. L. Murray, D. A. O. Edward, P. Jann, L. Sevoin and K. M. Ioannou Advocate General F. G. Jacobs
Trade Mark
— Proprietor's rights
— Exhaustion
— Goods marketed outside European Economic Area and re-imported into Community country
— Action for injunction on sale in Community under proprietor's mark
— National legislation providing for international exhaustion of proprietor's rights
— Whether precluded by Community Directive
— Whether injunction obtainable under provision of Directive
—
Council Directive (89/104/E.E.C.) (as amended by Agreement on European Economic Area), art. 7(1)