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The Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property hereby announces that the first Sound Mark applications have been filed. Sound Marks are one of the new type of Trade Marks provided by the Trademark Amending Law of 2020 (N. 63(I)/2020) and the Trademark Regulations of 2020 (Κ.Δ.Π. 259/2020).

The first Sound Mark applications that were filed by a well-known insurance agency fall under class 36 (Insurance services) and are represented through an mp4 audio file that executes the sound.

The new type of Trade Marks are position marks, pattern marks, colour marks, sound marks, motion marks, multimedia marks and hologram marks.