Brexit

Ahead of the upcoming changes to address for service rules for comparable trade marks and re-registered designs, the UK IPO has published updated guidance on the requirements.

The government needs more time to explore the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property (IP) regime meaning there will be no imminent change, it has announced.

Earlier UK filing dates for some 70,000 trade marks are still eligible to claimed with the deadline just six weeks away.

Just ten weeks remain until the filing deadline for UK priority applications based on rights that were pending at the EUIPO on 1st January 2021.

The UK IPO has announced that it is extending its bulk change of address service until 30th September 2021.

We have received an update from the UK IPO about filing dates for refiled UK trade mark applications.

International designs designating the EU that were registered before 1st January 2021 are now available to view or search on the UK register.

Intellectual Property Magazine’s Brexit podcast panel, including Richard Goddard, returned to discuss future issues for IP following Brexit.

Representative address details on newly created comparable UK trade marks and designs can be updated in bulk thanks to a new service launched by the UK IPO.

More than two million trade marks and designs registered at the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have been recreated in the UK ensuring continuation of protection.

Details of the impact new legislation has on practice before the UK IPO has been published. The legal changes come into force on 1st January 2021.

The Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg) has confirmed that titles including the term ‘European’ can be used by UK attorneys post-Brexit, but the announcement came with an important caveat.