Guides

The Intellectual Property Offices of the European Union Intellectual Property Network continue to collaborate in the context of converging trade mark and design practices. They have now agreed on an additional Common Practice on trade marks with the aim of providing guidance with regard to the examination of formal requirements and grounds for refusal and/or invalidity of new types of trade mark, namely, sound, motion, multimedia and hologram marks, and the new ways of representing them.

This Common Practice is made public through this Common Communication with the purpose of further increasing transparency, legal certainty and predictability for the benefit of examiners and users alike.

The implementation date of the Common Practice for Cyprus is set at 14/07/2021 for procedures that will initiate after the implementation date.