SCHEDULES

PART 3U.K.Applications for European Union trade marks which are pending on IP completion day

Application for registration under this Act based upon an existing EUTM applicationU.K.

25(1)This paragraph applies where a person who has filed an existing EUTM application or a successor in title of that person applies for registration of the same trade mark under this Act for some or all of the same goods or services.

(2)Where an application for registration referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is made within a period beginning with IP completion day and ending with the end of the relevant period—

(a)the relevant date for the purposes of establishing which rights take precedence is the earliest of—

(i)the filing date accorded pursuant to Article 32 to the existing EUTM application;

(ii)the date of priority (if any) accorded pursuant to a right of priority claimed pursuant to Article 35 in respect of the existing EUTM application; and

(b)the registrability of the trade mark shall not be affected by any use of the mark in the United Kingdom which commenced in the period between the date referred to in paragraph (a) and the date of the application under this Act.

(3)In paragraph (2), the “relevant period” means the period of nine months beginning with the day after that on which IP completion day falls.]