Judgment of the CJEU: Tommy Hilfiger
July 29th, 2016
The operator of a physical marketplace may be forced to put an end to trademark infringements committed by market-traders.
The company Delta Center is the tenant of the marketplace ‘Pražská tržnice’ (Prague market halls). It sublets to market-traders the various sales areas in that marketplace.
Manufacturers and distributers of branded products discovered that counterfeits of their goods were regularly in Prague marke[…]