Referral C-168/24 (Société PMJC, 28 Feb 2024)

Must Article 12(2)(b) of Directive 2008/95/EC of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks and Article 20(b) of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of 16 December 2015 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks be interpreted as precluding the revocation of a trade mark consisting of the surname of a designer on the grounds that it is used after the assignment in such a way as to make the public actually believe that that designer is still involved in the design of the goods bearing the mark, when that is no longer the case?