The Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Transitional provisions

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

43.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where, before IP completion day, a product or a medicinal product containing that product, as defined in Article 1 of Regulation EC (No) 469/2009, is marked in accordance with that Regulation with the logo set out in Annex -I of that Regulation.

(2) That product or medicinal product containing that product so marked is not required, after these Regulations come into force, to have the words “UK export” affixed to it.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where, before IP completion day, a notification is made to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks in the form set out in Annex -Ia of Regulation (EC) No 469/2009.

(4) That notification is to be treated, on and after IP completion day, as a notification made—

(a)on Patents Form SP5; and

(b)on the same date as the notification made on the form set out in that Annex -Ia.