Chapter 13

Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, this Regulation and the acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation shall apply to applications for…

1. International applications pursuant to Article 3 of the Madrid Protocol based on an application for an EU trade mark or on an EU trade mark shall…

1. The international application shall be filed in one of the official languages of the Union, using a form provided by the Office. The Office shall…

1. The date and number of an international registration based on an EU trade mark application shall be recorded in the files of that application…

1. Within a period of five years of the date of the international registration, the Office shall notify the International Bureau of any facts and…

1. A request for territorial extension made subsequent to an international registration pursuant to Article 3ter(2) of the Madrid Protocol may be…

Any fees payable to the International Bureau under the Madrid Protocol shall be paid direct to the International Bureau.

1. An international registration designating the Union shall, from the date of its registration pursuant to Article 3(4) of the Madrid Protocol or…

1. The Office shall publish the date of registration of a mark designating the Union pursuant to Article 3(4) of the Madrid Protocol or the date of…

1. The applicant for an international registration designating the Union may claim, in the international application, the seniority of an earlier…

1. The holder of an international registration designating the Union may, as from the date of publication of the effects of such registration…

1. International registrations designating the Union shall be subject to examination as to their conformity with Article 33(2), (3) and (4) and to…

1. Where an international registration is based on a basic application or basic registration relating to a collective mark, certification mark or…

1. Once the Office has received a notification of an international registration designating the Union, it shall draw up a Union search report as…

1. International registration designating the Union shall be subject to opposition in the same way as published EU trade mark applications.

The Office shall, upon request, enter a notice in the Register that an EU trade mark is deemed to have been replaced by an international registration…

1. The effects of an international registration designating the Union may be declared invalid.

The recordal of a change in the ownership of an international registration on the International Register shall have the same effect as the entry of a…

The recordal of a licence or a restriction of the holder's right of disposal in respect of an international registration in the International…

The Office shall transmit requests to register a change in ownership, a licence or a restriction of the holder's right of disposal, the amendment or…

1. Where a designation of the Union through an international registration has been refused or ceases to have effect, the holder of the international…

For the purposes of applying Article 18(1), Article 47(2), Article 58(1)(a) and Article 64(2), the date of publication pursuant to Article 190(2)…

1. Subject to paragraph 2, the provisions applicable to EU trade mark applications shall apply mutatis mutandis to applications for transformation of…

Communication with the International Bureau shall be in a manner and format agreed on between the International Bureau and the Office, and preferably…

For the purpose of applying this Regulation, and rules adopted pursuant to it, to international registrations designating the Union, the language of…