Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
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Don’t forget the 30 September 2021 deadline for filing comparable UK trade mark or design applications based on any EU trade marks or designs that were pending at the end of the Brexit transition period. Since Brexit took effect this year, those rights will no longer cover the UK, unless a comparable UK application is filed.
Under Article 59 of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union, it is possible to:
Please contact your usual AA Thornton advisor for any assistance you might need. We have also produced a short AA Insights video on the subject of Brexit and trade marks, including the provision for filing comparable UK trade mark applications, with other updates and recommendations too, which you can watch below.
