Although it is more of a competition law case than anything else, today's European Court of Justice ruling in Case C-385/07 P Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland v Commission is not without interest to trade mark owners. In essence, what was at stake was a trade mark licensing scheme that effectively enabled Grüne Punkt, as a trade mark owner enjoying market dominance in the field of collecting waste packaging for recycling, to collect royalty revenue in respect of the use of its mark on packaging whether the disposal of the packaging was performed by it or not.