Chapter 3

1. An application for an EU trade mark shall be filed at the Office.

1. An application for an EU trade mark shall contain:

The date of filing of an EU trade mark application shall be the date on which the documents containing the information specified in Article 31(1) are…

1. Goods and services in respect of which trade mark registration is applied for shall be classified in conformity with the system of classification…

1. A person who has duly filed an application for a trade mark in or in respect of any State party to the Paris Convention or to the Agreement…

1. Priority claims shall be filed together with the EU trade mark application and shall include the date, number and country of the previous…

The right of priority shall have the effect that the date of priority shall count as the date of filing of the EU trade mark application for the…

An EU trade mark application which has been accorded a date of filing shall, in the Member States, be equivalent to a regular national filing, where…

1. If an applicant for an EU trade mark has displayed goods or services under the mark applied for, at an official or officially recognised…

1. The proprietor of an earlier trade mark registered in a Member State, including a trade mark registered in the Benelux countries, or registered…

1. The proprietor of an EU trade mark who is the proprietor of an earlier identical trade mark registered in a Member State, including a trade mark…