Luxemburg, 21/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment delivered on 9 November, the Second Chamber of the Court of Justice came down against Italian clothes manufacturer Diesel SpA, ruling that the holder of a trade mark cannot prevent the transit of goods through an EU Member State in which the mark enjoys protection, unless it is able to demonstrate a risk of these goods being placed on the market in the Member State of transit (case C-281/05, Montex Holdings versus Diesel SpA).
In 2000,...