13.11.2017

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 382/34

(Case C-521/17)

(2017/C 382/41)

Language of the case: Estonian

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: c.v. SNB-REACT u. a.

Defendant: Deepak Mehta

Questions referred

1.Is Article 4(c) of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights to be interpreted as meaning that Member States are required to recognise collecting societies of trade mark proprietors as persons with standing to pursue legal remedies in their own name to defend the rights of trade mark proprietors and to bring actions before the courts in their own name to enforce the rights of trade mark proprietors?

2.Are Articles 12, 13 and 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) to be interpreted as meaning that even a service provider whose service consists in registering IP addresses, thus enabling them to be anonymously linked to domains, and in renting out those IP addresses, is to be regarded as a service provider within the meaning of those provisions to whom the exemptions from liability provided for there apply?

Language of the case: Estonian

(1) OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45.

(2) OJ 2000 L 178, p. 1.