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FERNANDO CORTES / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
1 May 2015TrademarksIzabella Dudek-Urbanowicz

Community trademarks: A double-edged sword

If the owner of an earlier Community trademark (CTM) decides to initiate an opposition or invalidation proceeding against another party’s trademark before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the trademark owner must expect to prove that it has genuinely used the earlier mark, as the rival party will have the right to request this under the relevant legislation.

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