52Some of the interested persons to have submitted observations to the Court also maintain that, even if the borders of the Member States within the internal market are disregarded, the condition of genuine use of a Community trade mark requires that the trade mark should be used in a substantial part of the Community, which may correspond to the territory of a Member State. They argue that such a condition follows, by analogy, from Case C-375/97 General Motors [1999] ECR I-5421, paragraph 28, Case C-328/06 Nieto Nuño [2007] ECR I-10093, paragraph 17, and Case C-301/07 PAGO International [2009] ECR I-9429, paragraph 27).
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