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Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (codified version) (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union
A Community trade mark shall be declared invalid on application to the Office or on the basis of a counterclaim in infringement proceedings: where there is an earlier trade mark as referred to in Article 8(2) and the conditions set out in paragraph 1 or paragraph 5 of that Article are fulfilled; where there is a trade mark as referred to in Article 8(3) and the conditions set out in that paragraph are fulfilled; where there is an earlier right as referred to in Article 8(4) and the conditions set out in that paragraph are fulfilled.
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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.