Judgment_paragraph 2 · Oberbank AG and Others v Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband eV (C-217/13, C-218/13)

2The requests have been made in the course of two sets of proceedings between, first, in Case C‑217/13, Oberbank AG (‘Oberbank’) and, second, in Case C‑218/13, Banco Santander SA (‘Banco Santander’) and Santander Consumer Bank AG (‘Santander Consumer Bank’), on the one hand, and Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband eV (‘DSGV’), on the other hand, concerning applications for a declaration of invalidity made in respect of a contourless red colour mark of which DSGV is the proprietor.