The Trade Marks Rules 2008

Interpretation U.K.

2.—(1) In these Rules—

“the Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;

“the Journal” means the Trade Marks Journal published in accordance with rule 81;

“the “Nice Agreement” means the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15th June 1957(1), which was last amended on 28th September 1979;

“the “Nice Classification” means the system of classification under the Nice Agreement(2);

[F1 “the Office” means the Patent Office which operates under the name “Intellectual Property Office”;]

“send” includes give;

“specification” means the statement of goods or services in respect of which a trade mark is registered or proposed to be registered;

“transformation application” means an application to register a trade mark under the Act where that mark was the subject of an international registration prior to that registration being cancelled.

(2) In these Rules a reference to a section is a reference to that section in the Act and a reference to a form is a reference to that form as published under rule 3.

(3) In these Rules references to the filing of any application, notice or other document, unless the contrary intention appears, are to be construed as references to its being delivered to the registrar at the Office.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 2(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Trade Marks and Trade Marks and Patents (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2089), rules 2, 4

Commencement Information

I1 Rule 2 in force at 1.10.2008, see rule 1

(1)

Cmnd 6898.

(2)

The current version of the classification is the Ninth Edition which entered into force on 1st January 2007 and is available on the WIPO website.