{"id":1205,"date":"2020-01-28T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.ballester-ip.com\/brexits-consequences-on-the-protection-of-european-union-trademarks-and-community-designs\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T07:04:31","slug":"brexits-consequences-on-the-protection-of-european-union-trademarks-and-community-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/brexits-consequences-on-the-protection-of-european-union-trademarks-and-community-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit\u2019s consequences on the protection of European Union trademarks and community designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United Kingdom will leave the European Union on 31 January 2020. However, a 11-month transition period, that is until 31 December 2020, has been set for both parties to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/intellectual-property-and-brexit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guidance<\/a> on the changes in the protection of European Union trademarks and community designs after the United Kingdom\u2019s exit on 31 December. The most important changes are the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>European Union Trademarks and Community Designs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Registered trademarks and designs on 31 December 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UKIPO will automatically create a UK trademark or design for each trademark or design registration in the European Union. No payment of official fees will be necessary.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Pending trademark and design applications on 31 December 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UKIPO has set a 9-month transition period, that is until <strong>30 September 2021<\/strong>, to apply for an identical UK trademark or design if applicants wish so. In practice, the new application will be handled as usual (this means that the applicant will have to <strong>pay the corresponding official fees<\/strong> and the application will be examined according to UKIPO\u2019s criteria). However, the UK application will <strong>keep the same filing date as the EU trademark or design application<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is important to note that <strong>community designs with deferred publication<\/strong> at EUIPO will be treated as pending applications at UKIPO. Therefore, applicants will have to apply for a UK design and pay the corresponding fees, although the application will not be the subject of a substantive examination.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Renewals<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any EU trademark or design registrations which<strong> are due to expire after 31 December 2020 <\/strong>will have to be renewed before UKIPO to be in force in the United Kingdom. Of course, the corresponding EU trademark or design should also need to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>International Trademark or Design Registrations designating the European Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above-mentioned scenarios are also applicable to the <strong>designations in the European Union of international trademarks and designs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should also be noted that after exit day, titleholders may request to opt out of holding a UK right if they wish so by submitting a request before UKIPO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ballester IP\u2019s team remains at your entire disposal if you have any doubts or need any additional information in relation to this matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><a style=\"color: #9e0064;\" href=\" https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/\">Ballester IP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Kingdom will leave the European Union on 31 January 2020. However, a 11-month transition period, that is until 31 December 2020, has been set for both parties to negotiate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-actualidad","7":"category-news-en"},"cp_meta_data":{"_encloseme":["1"],"_product_image_gallery":[""],"_cmplz_scanned_post":["1"],"nectar_blog_post_view_count":["152"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ballester-ip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}