33Under the first sentence of Article 42(2) of Regulation No 207/2009, an applicant for an EU trade mark may require the proprietor of the earlier trade mark to furnish proof that the earlier mark has been put to ‘genuine use’ in the European Union during the period of five years preceding the date of publication of the trade mark application against which an opposition has been filed.
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