Traduction de «instance en contrefaçon » (Français → Anglais) :

By judgment of 15 March 2006, the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Regional Court, Paris, France) – which heard the case as a Community trade mark court – found that DHL Express France had infringed the French trade mark WEBSHIPPING, although it did not adjudicate upon the infringement of the Community trade mark.

In 2007, the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (Regional Court, Paris), acting as a Community trade mark court, declared that there had been trade-mark infringement, prohibited DHL from proceeding with the acts constituting the infringement, and imposed a periodic penalty payment on it, that is to say, a financial penalty should it fail to comply with the prohibition.

The European Central Bank (ECB) performs a technical analysis of counterfeit euro banknotes of a new type at the Counterfeit Analysis Centre located on the premises of the ECB, stores the technical and statistical data on counterfeit banknotes and coins in a central database, also located at the ECB, and disseminates the relevant technical and statistical information to all those involved in combating counterfeiting.

4. A licensee shall, for the purpose of obtaining compensation for damage suffered by him, be entitled to intervene in an infringement action brought by the right holder in a Community design.

protection for inventions would be obtained immediately for the whole of the Community, under a single procedure; the management of rights would be greatly facilitated, since there would no longer be any national phase, which should also have the effect of reducing costs (there would be only one renewal fee); the system would avoid the need for infringement actions to be brought in each Member State since the plaintiff could bring all the actions before a single court; it would offer greater legal certainty through the creation of a central court competent to hand down decisions on interpretation and validity of Community patents.

Action to combat counterfeiting and the economic damage caused both to individual businesses and to countries as a whole, will be more effective since Member States will assign to a limited number of courts of first and second instance exclusive jurisdiction over cases concerning the counterfeiting of Community trade marks.