Links to official UK IPO and EUIPO Brexit guidance
Find the links to the latest UK IPO and EUIPO guidance on post-Brexit trade marks and designs.
The links below are the latest guidance from the UK IPO and EUIPO as at 7th December 2020.
UK IPO:
- UK IPO guidance on trade marks
- UK IPO guidance on designs
- UK IPO guidance on unregistered designs
- UK IPO new UK address for service rules
- New UK GI scheme
- UK IPO system maintenance
- Intellectual property after 1st January 2021 summary
EUIPO:
- Information (6th Nov 2020)
- Official communication 2/20
- EUIPO official Q&A
- Associations of representatives news item
- Associations of representatives Q&A
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UK IPO updates address for service guidance
Ahead of the upcoming changes to address for service rules for comparable trade marks and re-registered designs, the UK IPO has published updated guidance on the requirements.
UK government announces no action on exhaustion
The government needs more time to explore the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property (IP) regime meaning there will be no imminent change, it has announced.
Deadline looms for pending EU rights
Earlier UK filing dates for some 70,000 trade marks are still eligible to claimed with the deadline just six weeks away.
UK IPO's warning about priority filings
Just ten weeks remain until the filing deadline for UK priority applications based on rights that were pending at the EUIPO on 1st January 2021.