Trade Marks Act 1994 (c. 26)

SCHEDULES

[F1 SCHEDULE 2B U.K. INTERNATIONAL TRADE MARKS PROTECTED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2B inserted (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 3 (with Sch. 5 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 22(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

PART 2 U.K. Treatment of international trade marks protected in the European Union which expire during the period of six months ending on IP completion day

Renewal of an expired IR(EU): territorial extension under Article 3ter(1) U.K.

25 (1) Where the protection in the European Union of an expired IR(EU) resulted from a request for territorial extension under Article 3ter(1), the registrar must, as soon as reasonably practicable following receipt of the renewal notice, renew the registration of the comparable trade mark (IR) which derives from the expired IR(EU).

(2) A comparable trade mark (IR) which is renewed under sub-paragraph (1) shall be renewed for a period of ten years from the expiry of the international registration to which the expired IR(EU) is subject.

(3) Section 43(6) applies to the registration of a comparable trade mark (IR) which is renewed in accordance with this paragraph.]