Brussels, 03/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - An advertiser mentioning a trademark in adverts on a website can no longer be considered to be using the trademark from the time when he explicitly asks the site manager to remove it. If the adverts are not removed, the trademark holder may take the website manager to court.
This is the ruling issued by the European Court of Justice on Thursday 3 March in case C-179/15 between car manufacturer Daimler, holder of the Mercedes-Benz trademark, and a...