JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber)
23 March 2010 (*)
Google France
(Trade marks – Internet – Search engine – Keyword advertising – Display, on the basis of keywords
corresponding to trade marks, of links to sites of competitors of the proprietors of those marks or to
sites offering imitation goods – Directive 89/104/EEC – Article 5 – Regulation (EC) No 40/94 –
Article 9 – Liability of the search engine operator – Directive 2000/31/EC (‘Directive on electronic
In Joined Cases C-236/08 to C-238/08,
commerce’))
REFERENCES for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Cour de cassation (France),
made by decisions of 20 May 2008, received at the Court on 3 June 2008, in the proceedings
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