EL USO REFERENCIAL DE LA MARCA AJENA COMO LÍMITE AL DERECHO EXCLUSIVO DE MARCA. ANÁLISIS DE LA SENTENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPREMO NÚM. 1906/2024, DE 10 DE ABRIL (“CASO ZARA”)

M.ª Mercedes Curto Polo

doi:10.21134/sa73vv03

THE REFERENTIAL USE OF ANOTHER’S TRADEMARK AS A LIMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF TRADEMARK. Analysis of Supreme Court Judgment No. 1906/2024, of April 10 (“Zara Case”)

Authors

M.ª Mercedes Curto Polo Catedrática de Derecho Mercantil UNED

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21134/sa73vv03

Keywords:

Content of trademark rights, use of the trademark as a trademark, use of the trademark for products or services, limitations on trademark rights, referential uses of another’s trademark

Abstract

This paper analyzes Supreme Court Judgment No. 1906/2024, of April 10, 2024, by which our highest court resolves the appeal in cassation filed by Diseño Textil S.A. (Inditex) against the Judgment of Section 28 of the Provincial Court of Madrid of May 18, 2018, which dismisses the appeal filed by Industria de Diseño Textil S.A. against the judgment issued on March 15, 2016 by the Commercial Court No. 2 of Madrid, in proceedings No. 569/2013.