European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases
Why we alert our stakeholders on ECJ cases
EU Member States are invited to make observations on ECJ cases. For cases concerning IP, the Intellectual Property Office provides advice to Ministers, who decide whether the UK should submit observations and intervene in ECJ cases.
If you wish to express your views on ECJ cases you can e-mail us. We also provide an ECJ e-mail alert service, which provides an automatic e-mail notification to subscribers when a new case is posted on our website. If you no longer wish to receive ECJ notification e-mails please send us an e-mail titled "unsubscribe ECJ"
Frequently asked questions
Useful information on what we publish and when we update our website, deadlines and how we calculate them, discussion of UK observations and how to provide useful comments.
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 (previously called the Court of First Instance CFI). We will include the following information in the table:
- Deadline by which the ECJ 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 pre 2007 cases by year, in our archive.