Judgment_paragraph 44 · European Union Intellectual Property Office v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbR (C-382/21 P)

44The Commission adds, in the same vein, that the limits set out in the case-law of the Court of Justice concerning the obligation to interpret national law in conformity with EU law, stemming inter alia from the judgment of 24 January 2012, Dominguez (C‑282/10, EU:C:2012:33, paragraph 25), also apply to the General Court where it interprets Article 41(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 in the light of the Paris Convention. Thus, given that the General Court’s interpretation runs counter to the clear wording of that provision, the General Court actually applied that convention directly, whereas the latter cannot have direct effect, even through the TRIPs Agreement.