Can a CJEU ruling on the European system of central banks pave the way towards an even greater impact of CJEU IP rulings?
The IPKat's Central Bank What has the Statute of the European System of Central Banks have to do with IP law? Directly, perhaps not much. However, a case recently decided in this area and concerning the provisional suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Latvia pending criminal investigations might have potentially important implications also in the field of IP. In particular, it might be relevant in the case in which an EU Member State has incorrectly transposed an EU directive into its own national law. Rimsevics Last month the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a decision, Rimsevics , C‑202/18 and C‑238/18 , which for the first time saw the highest EU court directly annulling an act rendered by an authority of a Member State (Latvia) and extricated it from that domestic legal order. In her Opinion in that case, Advocate General (AG) Kokott had s...