The Court of Justice of the European Union
The case table at the foot of this page provides up-to-date information on the Court of Justice of the European Union (also known as the ECJ) cases that are relevant to intellectual property rights.
The Intellectual Property Office invites comments from interested parties to help inform the Government’s decision on whether to intervene in ECJ cases. We provide an e-mail alert service, which will automatically send you a notification by email when a new case is posted on our website and should maximise the time available for interested parties to make comments on particular cases.
If you would like to know more about how to provide comments and the timings involved, further information is available on the handling of cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
How to use the ECJ case table
The case table includes preliminary rulings where national courts submit questions concerning the interpretation or validity of a provision of Union law for intellectual property cases, and Appeals against Judgments from the General Court (also known as Court of First Instance. CFI). We will include the following information in the table:
- Deadline by which the Court of Justice of the European Union requires any observations on preliminary rulings or interventions for appeals from the General Court;
- Provides links to an opinion or a judgment when delivered;
- Whether a case has been stayed, this can occur at any stage
In the case table you can find the questions referred to in the ECJ in the first column. For cases under appeal from the General Court, there is a link to the General Court judgment. Where an opinion or a judgment has been delivered by the ECJ you can follow the link in the last column to the relevant entry on the Curia website.
ECJ case table
You can view cases by year
