The Trade Marks (International Registrations Designating the European Community, etc.) Regulations 2004

PART 3 DESIGNATION OF COMMUNITY TRADE MARK COURTS

Further amendment of the 1996 Regulations

15.—(1) The 1996 Regulations are further amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 9 substitute—

“Designation of Community trade mark courts

9.— (1) For the purposes of Article 91 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation, the following courts are designated as Community trade mark courts—

(a) in England and Wales—

(i) the High Court;

(ii) any county court designated as a patents county court under section 287(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988(1); and

(iii) the county courts listed in paragraph (2);

(b) in Scotland, the Court of Session; and

(c) in Northern Ireland, the High Court.

(2) The county courts referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(iii) are the county courts at—

(a) Birmingham;

(b) Bristol;

(c) Cardiff;

(d) Leeds;

(e) Liverpool;

(f) Manchester; and

(g) Newcastle upon Tyne.”.

(1)

1988 c. 48.