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Data Protection May Have to Yield in IP Infringement Cases (Case C‑580/13, Coty Germany)

Stéphanie De Smedt

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/EDPL/2015/4/14



Case C‑580/13, Coty Germany GmbH v Stadtsparkasse Magdeburg, judgment of 16 July 2015, not yet published – Opinion Advocate General Cruz Villalon of 16 April 2015
The effective enforcement of intellectual property rights and the claimant’s right to information in IP infringement proceedings, precludes any national provision which allows a banking institution to invoke, in an unlimited and unconditional manner, banking secrecy in order to refuse to provide information concerning the name and address of an account holder (author’s headnote).

Stéphanie De Smedt is Associate with Loyens & Loeff Brussels (Belgium), specialising in intellectual property and information technology law; stephanie.de.smedt@loyensloeff.com.
Art 8 of Directive 2004/48 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004, L 157, 45, and corrigendum OJ 2004, L 195, 16) (Enforcement Directive 2004/48).

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De Smedt, S.
Data Protection May Have to Yield in IP Infringement Cases (Case C‑580/13, Coty Germany)
European Data Protection Law Review
Volume 1, Issue 4 (2015)
pp. 316 - 320
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21552/EDPL/2015/4/14

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