In our recent post (click here to access), we confirmed that for EU trade marks which are registered at the withdrawal date, either 29 March 2019 (no-deal scenario) or 31 December 2020 (deal scenario), new UK national rights will be

Clare Jackman (UK)
Brexit: trade mark numbering for cloned UK marks
New UK national rights will be cloned onto the UK register, automatically, without charge and retaining all relevant dates.…
Changes to UK trademark law 2019
On January 14, 2019 new trademark laws came into force in the UK, to implement the EU Trademark Directive 2015/2436.…
Brexit: trademarks and designs
It won’t be news to you that there is still a great deal of uncertainty around Brexit and, with the March 29, 2019 looming, we do not yet know if the UK will exit in an orderly fashion (with a deal and with a transition period), obtain an extension of the negotiating period with a view to agreeing terms, crash out without a deal or, reverse the process altogether.…
Threat or hope for Louboutin’s iconic red sole trade mark? AG Szpunar opines that a mark’s ‘reputation’ should not be confused with ‘substantial value’
The trade mark consists of “the colour red (Pantone 18 1663TP) applied to the sole of a shoe as shown (the contour of the shoe is not part of the trade mark but is intended to show the positioning of…
Brexit: Initial considerations for trademark and design owners
Yesterday, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The exit will not happen immediately. It is likely to take at least two years after the process is actually triggered for the transition to be completed. For the time being it…
Trade mark infringement and company names
Following the implementation of the EU trade mark regulation (EUTMR) on March 29, 2016, an EU registered trade mark may now be infringed by use of that trade mark as a trade or company name or as part of a…
Shape matters? Or not as the case may be
On 9 March 2016 the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment in an appeal concerning the alleged infringement of Magmatic’s Community Registered Design (RCD) for a ride-on suitcase, known in the market as the “Trunki”.
The Supreme Court dismissed…
Trade Marks: EUTM Specification checker
Act now to ensure that your business requirements are appropriately safeguarded
For owners of EUTMs which predate 22 June 2012, there is a “window of opportunity” until 23 September 2016 to review and ‘perfect’ their EUTMs to safeguard the scope…
EU trade mark law reforms
10 things to know
As we previously reported in January 2016, the European Commission decided in 2008 that a review of the functioning of the trade mark system in Europe was required in order to further harmonise the national laws…