The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 638

SCHEDULE 4 U.K. Amendments to the 1994 Act to make provision for certain international trade marks protected in the European Union to be treated as registered trade marks and about certain applications for such marks and transformation applications

2.  After section 54 M1 (and before the italic heading before section 55), insert— U.K.

“54A.    Certain international trade marks protected in the European Union to be treated as registered trade marks

Schedule 2B makes provision for international trade marks protected in the European Union (including certain expired marks) to be treated as registered trade marks with effect from [F1 IP completion day] and about certain applications for the protection of an international trade mark in the European Union and transformation applications made before [F1 IP completion day].”

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 4 para. 2 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1050), regs. 1(2), 22(a)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 54 was amended by the Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (c. 14), section 2(4).