Judgment_paragraph 48 · IRnova AB v FLIR Systems AB (C-399/21)

48In that regard, suffice it to note that proceedings concerning a patent infringement also involve a thorough analysis of the scope of the protection conferred by that patent in the light of the patent law of the country in which that patent was granted. The Court has already held that, in the absence of the requisite close link in fact and law to the place where the intellectual property right at issue has been registered, such proceedings fall not within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that Member State, but, pursuant to Article 4(1) of the Brussels Ia Regulation, within the general jurisdiction of the courts of the Member State in which the defendant is domiciled (see, to that effect, judgments of 15 November 1983, Duijnstee, 288/82, EU:C:1983:326, paragraph 23, and of 13 July 2006, GAT, C‑4/03, EU:C:2006:457, paragraph 16).