Paragraph 1 shall cease to apply if the proprietor of the earlier right has acquiesced in the use of the EU trade mark in the territory where his right is protected for a period of five successive years, being aware of such use, unless the EU trade mark was applied for in bad faith.
Ní bheidh feidhm ag mír 1 a thuilleadh más rud é gur thoiligh dílseánach an chirt níos luaithe leis an trádmharc de chuid AE a bheith in úsáid sa chríoch ina bhfuil a cheart cosanta ar feadh tréimhse cúig bliana as a chéile, agus é ar an eolas faoin úsáid sin, murar rinneadh an t-iarratas ar an trádmharc de chuid AE de mheon mímhacánta.