Part III Administrative and other supplementary provisions
Trade mark agents
87 Privilege for communications with registered trade mark agents.
(1)
This section applies toF1—
(a)
communications as to any matter relating to the protection of any design or trade mark, or as to any matter involving passing offF2, and
(b)
documents, material or information relating to any matter mentioned in paragraph (a).
F3(2)
Where a trade mark attorney acts for a client in relation to a matter mentioned in subsection (1), any communication, document, material or information to which this section applies is privileged from disclosure in like manner as if the trade mark attorney had at all material times been acting as the client's solicitor.
(3)
In subsection (2) “trade mark F4attorney” means—
(a)
a registered trade mark F4attorney, or
(b)
a partnership entitled to describe itself as a firm of registered trade mark F5attorneys, or
(c)
F8(d)
a person whose name appears on the list of professional representatives for trade mark matters maintained by the European Union Intellectual Property Office referred to in Article 120 of the European Union Trade Mark Regulation.
F9(4)
Where a trade mark attorney is a person falling within subsection (3)(d), subsection (2) applies as if the reference to a matter mentioned in subsection (1) were a reference to a matter relating to the protection of a trade mark.