Judgment_paragraph 35 · Santen SAS v Directeur général de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle (C-673/18)

35In this connection, according to settled case-law, even if, formally, the referring court has limited its questions to the interpretation of certain aspects of EU law, that does not prevent this Court from providing the referring court with all the elements of interpretation of EU law which may be of assistance in adjudicating in the case pending before it, whether or not that court has referred to them in the wording of its questions (see, to that effect, judgment of 5 June 2018, Coman and Others, C‑673/16, EU:C:2018:385, paragraph 22 and the case-law cited).