Chapter 9

1. Decisions of the Office shall state the reasons on which they are based. They shall be based only on reasons or evidence on which the parties…

1. In proceedings before it the Office shall examine the facts of its own motion; however, in proceedings relating to relative grounds for refusal of…

1. If the Office considers that oral proceedings would be expedient they shall be held either at the instance of the Office or at the request of any…

1. In any proceedings before the Office, the means of giving or obtaining evidence shall include the following:

1. The Office shall, as a matter of course, notify those concerned of decisions and summonses and of any notice or other communication from which a…

Where the Office finds that the loss of any rights results from this Regulation or acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation, without any decision…

1. Communications addressed to the Office may be effected by electronic means. The Executive Director shall determine to what extent and under which…

1. Time limits shall be laid down in terms of full years, months, weeks or days. Calculation shall start on the day following the day on which the…

1. The Office shall correct any linguistic errors or errors of transcription and manifest oversights in its decisions, or technical errors…

1. Where the Office has made an entry in the Register or taken a decision which contains an obvious error attributable to the Office, it shall ensure…

1. The applicant for or proprietor of an EU trade mark or any other party to proceedings before the Office who, in spite of all due care required by…

1. An applicant for or proprietor of an EU trade mark or any other party to proceedings before the Office who has omitted to observe a time limit…

1. Proceedings before the Office shall be interrupted:

In the absence of procedural provisions in this Regulation or in acts adopted pursuant to this Regulation, the Office shall take into account the…

1. Rights of the Office to the payment of a fee shall be extinguished after four years from the end of the calendar year in which the fee fell due.

1. The losing party in opposition proceedings, proceedings for revocation, proceedings for a declaration of invalidity or appeal proceedings shall…

1. Any final decision of the Office fixing the amount of costs shall be enforceable.

1. The Office shall keep a Register of EU trade marks which it shall keep up to date.

1. In addition to the obligation to keep a Register within the meaning of Article 111, the Office shall collect and store in an electronic database…

1. The decisions of the Office shall be made available online for the information and consultation of the general public in the interest of…

1. The files relating to EU trade mark applications which have not yet been published shall not be made available for inspection without the consent…

1. The Office shall keep the files of any procedure relating to an EU trade mark application or EU trade mark registration. The Executive Director…

1. The Office shall periodically publish:

1. Unless otherwise provided in this Regulation or in national laws, the Office and the courts or authorities of the Member States shall on request…

1. The Office and the central industrial property offices of the Member States shall despatch to each other on request and for their own use one or…

1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2, no person shall be compelled to be represented before the Office.

1. Representation of natural or legal persons before the Office may only be undertaken by:

The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 208 specifying: