filing of trade marks [ filing of trademarks ]

trademark [ manufacturer's trademark | product brand | service mark | stamp of origin | trade mark | trade mark licences(UNBIS) ]

mark or trade name | trade name or mark of the manufacturer

Statute on Trademarks

registered trademark [ registered trade-mark ]

manufacturer's brand | producer's brand

trademark | manufacturer's brand

brand | brand name | trademark | manufacturer's brand | corporate brand

registration of a trademark

26 April: World Intellectual Property Day - Almost 90 000 EU trade mark applications received from Member States in 2015 - Germany first among Member States, Paris among EU regions // Brussels, 25 April 2016

[41]Article 24(5) of the TRIPS Agreement provides that ‘where a trademark has been applied for or registered in good faith, or where rights to a trademark have been acquired through use in good faith before the geographical indication is protected in its country of origin; measures adopted to implement the TRIPS provisions related to GIs shall not prejudice eligibility for or the validity of the registration of a trademark, or the right to use a trademark, on the basis that such a trademark is identical with, or similar to, a geographical indication’.

The purpose of this proposal to recast the Trade Marks Directive (as well as of the associated proposal to amend the Community Trade Mark Regulation) is to make trade mark registration systems throughout the EU more accessible and efficient for businesses in terms of lower costs and complexity, increased speed, greater predictability and legal security.

(1) Every trademark duly registered in the country of origin shall be accepted for filing and protected as [it] is in the other countries of the Union, subject to the reservations indicated in this Article.