Index card CeramTec GmbH v Coorstek Bioceramics LLC

CeramTec GmbH v Coorstek Bioceramics LLC

Hearings

European Union

19 Jun 2025 (Case C-17/24); EU:C:2025:455; [2025] Bus LR 2654; [2025] WLR(D) 333, ECJ (President of Chamber C Lycourgos,Judges N Piçarra, O Spineanu‑Matei, S Gervasoni, N Fenger Advocate General A Biondi)

Subject Matter

TRADE MARK — European Union trade mark — Grounds for invalidity — Court required to declare as invalid marks having certain features making them non-registrable and marks applied for in bad faith — Interrelationship between grounds — Whether grounds autonomous — Whether applicant’s intention to use mark to extend right previously protected by patent in itself constituting bad faith — Relevance of circumstances occurring after registration to assessment of bad faith — Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009, arts 7(1)(e)(ii), 52(1)(a), (b)

(Case C-17/24); EU:C:2025:455; [2025] Bus LR 2654; [2025] WLR(D) 333, ECJ

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