Where the proprietor of an EU trade mark has acquiesced, for a period of five successive years, in the use of a later EU trade mark in the Union while being aware of such use, he shall no longer be entitled on the basis of the earlier trade mark to apply for a declaration that the later trade mark is invalid in respect of the goods or services for which the later trade mark has been used, unless registration of the later EU trade mark was applied for in bad faith.
I gcás inar thoiligh dílseánach an trádmhairc sin de chuid AE, ar feadh tréimhse cúig bliana as a chéile, le trádmhairc is déanaí de chuid AE a bheith in úsáid san Aontas agus é ar an eolas faoin úsáid sin, ní bheidh an dílseánach sin i dteideal a thuilleadh iarratas a dhéanamh, ar bhonn an trádmhairc níos luaithe, ar dhearbhú go bhfuil an trádmharc níos déanaí neamhbhailí i leith na n-earraí nó na seirbhísí dá raibh an trádmharc níos déanaí in úsáid, murar rinneadh an t-iarratas ar an trádmharc de chuid AE a chlárú de mheon mímhacánta.