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FRIDAY, 13 AUGUST 2010
UK to continue CTM owner notifications -- for now
The United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) provides a notification service for Community trade mark proprietors who -- if they so choose and pay the fee -- warns them if anyone files a UK application that may conflict with their marks. The IPO has now issued this notice indicating that, even though the level of take-up has been very low, it will continue to offer the notification service for the time being.

CTM owners who have opted to be notified will have the option to renew their opt-in for a further three-year period, but no notices will be issued to remind them that expiry of the initial opt-in is imminent.  

It rather looks as though the notification service -- apparently the only such service offered to CTM owners by any national office within the EU -- would have been terminated but for the fact that the cost of fiddling around with the IPO's software would be too great within the confines of current public spending cuts.  

Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 10.19
Tags: UK Registry practice, notification for CTM owners,
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