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1.There is an impediment due to the prior right of a third party, where an objection of a third party, holding a trademark, against the designation of the variety denomination in the territory of the Union, is upheld by any competent authority. That impediment concerns trademarks which:
(a)have been registered in one or more Member States or in the Union before the registration of the variety denomination;
(b)are identical or similar to the variety denomination; and
(c)are registered in relation to goods consisting of the same or closely related species of the variety concerned.
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