The Trade Marks Regulations 2018

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 General

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. PART 2 Amendments to the 1994 Act

   1. 2. Amendments to the 1994 Act

   2. 3. Trade Marks

   3. 4. Absolute grounds for refusal of registration

   4. 5. Relative grounds for refusal of registration

   5. 6. Grounds for refusal relating to only some of the goods or services

   6. 7. Meaning of “earlier trade mark”

   7. 8. Raising of relative grounds in opposition proceedings in case of non-use

   8. 9. Rights conferred by registered trade mark

   9. 10. Infringement of registered trade mark

   10. 11. Right to prevent goods entering the UK without being released for free circulation and prohibition on the use of a trade mark registered in the name of an agent or representative

   11. 12. Limits on effect of registered trade mark

   12. 13. Non-use as defence in infringement proceedings

   13. 14. Assignment, &c of registered trade mark

   14. 15. Application for registration of trade mark as an object of property

   15. 16. Licensing of registered trade mark

   16. 17. General provisions as to rights of licensees in case of infringement

   17. 18. Application for registration

   18. 19. Publication, opposition proceedings and observations

   19. 20. Registration: supplementary provisions

   20. 21. Renewal of registration

   21. 22. Revocation of registration

   22. 23. Grounds for invalidity of registration

   23. 24. Collective marks

   24. 25. Certification marks

   25. 26. Meaning of “European Union trade mark”

   26. 27. Power to make provision in connection with European Union Trade Mark Regulation

   27. 28. Acts of agent or representative: Article 6septies

   28. 29. Similarity of goods and services

   29. 30. Infringing goods, material or articles may be treated as prohibited goods

   30. 31. Reproduction of trade marks in dictionaries, encyclopaedias etc.

   31. 32. Index of defined expressions

   32. 33. Schedule 1 - Collective marks

4. PART 3 Amendments to the Rules

   1. 34. Amendments to the Rules

   2. 35. Application for registration: section 32 (Form TM3)

   3. 36. Application may relate to more than one class and shall specify the class (Form TM3A)

   4. 37. Determination of classification

   5. 38. Opposition proceedings: filing of notice of opposition

   6. 39. Division of registration

   7. 40. Reminder of renewal of registration; section 43

   8. 41. Renewal of registration; section 43 (Form TM11)

   9. 42. Restoration of registration; section 43 (Form TM13)

   10. 43. Entry in register of particulars of registered trade marks; section 63(2) (Form TM24)

5. PART 4 Amendments to the CTM Regulations and the International Registration Order

   1. 44. Amendments to the CTM Regulations

   2. 45. Determination of invalidity and liability to revocation in relation to claims of seniority

   3. 46. Remedies in infringement proceedings

   4. 47. Conversion

   5. 48. Privilege for communications with those on the list of professional trade marks representatives

   6. 49. Designation of Community trade mark courts

   7. 50. Amendments to the International Registration Order

   8. 51. Provisions of the Act and Trade Mark Rules which do not apply to International Trade Marks (UK) or requests for extension

   9. 52. Modifications to provisions of the Act applied to International Trade Marks (UK)

6. PART 5 Transitional Provisions

   1. 53. Transitional Provisions

   2. 54. Subject to the amendments made by regulations 45 to 49,...

7. Signature

8. Explanatory Note