In order to reconcile the need to ensure the effective enforcement of trade mark rights with the necessity to avoid hampering the free flow of trade in legitimate goods, the entitlement of the proprietor of the EU trade mark should lapse where, during the subsequent proceedings initiated before the European Union trade mark court (‘EU trade mark court’) competent to take a substantive decision on whether the EU trade mark has been infringed, the declarant or the holder of the goods is able to prove that the proprietor of the EU trade mark is not entitled to prohibit the placing of the goods on the market in the country of final destination.
Chun an gá atá le forghníomhú éifeachtach ceart trádmharcanna a áirithiú agus an riachtanas atá ann gan cur isteach ar shaorshreabhadh trádála in earraí dlisteanacha a réiteach, ba cheart go rachadh teidlíocht dhílseánach an trádmhairc sin de chuid AE as feidhm i gcás, le linn imeachtaí ina dhiaidh sin arna dtionscnamh os comhair na cúirte um thrádmharcanna de chuid an Aontais Eorpaigh (“cúirt um thrádmharcanna de chuid AE”) atá inniúil chun cinneadh substainteach a dhéanamh maidir lenar sáraíodh an trádmharc de chuid AE nó nár sáraíodh, ina bhfuil dearbhóir nó sealbhóir na n-earraí in ann a chruthú nach bhfuil dílseánach an trádmhairc sin de chuid AE i dteideal cosc a chur ar earraí a chur ar an margadh i dtír an chinn scríbe.