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Trademark Law Treaty
(adopted at Geneva on October 27, 1994)
Article 1
Abbreviated Expressions
For the purposes
of this Treaty, unless expressly stated otherwise:
(i) means the agency entrusted by a Contracting Party with the
registration of marks;
(ii) means the registration of a mark by an Office;
(iii) means an application for registration;
(iv) references to a shall be construed as references to both a natural
person and a legal entity;
(v) means the person whom the register of marks shows as the holder of
the registration;
(vi) means the collection of data maintained by an Office, which
includes the contents of all registrations and all data recorded in respect of
all registrations, irrespective of the medium in which such data are stored;
(vii) means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property, signed at Paris on March 20, 1883, as revised and amended;
(viii) means the classification established by the Nice Agreement
Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the
Purposes of the Registration of Marks, signed at Nice on June 15, 1957, as
revised and amended;
(ix) means any State or intergovernmental organization party to this
Treaty;
(x) references to an shall be construed as including references to
instruments of acceptance and approval;
(xi) means the World Intellectual Property Organization;
(xii) means the Director General of the Organization;
(xiii) means the Regulations under this Treaty that are referred to in
Article 17.
Article 2
Marks to Which the Treaty Applies
(1) [Nature of
Marks]
(a) This Treaty shall apply to marks consisting of visible signs,
provided that only those Contracting Parties which accept for registration
three-dimensional marks shall be obliged to apply this Treaty to such marks.
(b) This Treaty shall not apply to hologram marks and to marks not
consisting of visible signs, in particular, sound marks and olfactory marks.
(2) [Kinds of
Marks]
(a) This Treaty shall apply to marks relating to goods (trademarks) or
services (service marks) or both goods and services.
(b) This Treaty shall not apply to collective marks, certification marks
and guarantee marks.
Article 3
Application
(1) [Indications
or Elements Contained in or Accompanying an Application; Fee]
(a) Any Contracting Party may require that an application contain some
or all of the following indications or elements:
(i) a request for registration;
(ii) the name and address of the applicant;
(iii) the name of a State of which the applicant is a national if he is
the national of any State, the name of a State in which the applicant has his
domicile, if any, and the name of a State in which the applicant has a real and
effective industrial or commercial establishment, if any;
(iv) where the applicant is a legal entity, the legal nature of that
legal entity and the State, and, where applicable, the territorial unit within
that State, under the law of which the said legal entity has been organized;
(v) where the applicant has a representative, the name and address of
that representative;
(vi) where an address for service is required under Article 4(2)(b),
such address;
(vii) where the applicant wishes to take advantage of the priority of an
earlier application, a declaration claiming the priority of that earlier
application, together with indications and evidence in support of the
declaration of priority that may be required pursuant to Article 4 of the Paris
Convention;
(viii) where the applicant wishes to take advantage of any protection
resulting from the display of goods and/or services in an exhibition, a
declaration to that effect, together with indications in support of that
declaration, as required by the law of the Contracting Party;
(ix) where the Office of the Contracting Party uses characters (letters
and numbers) that it considers as being standard and where the applicant wishes
that the mark be registered and published in standard characters, a statement
to that effect;
(x) where the applicant wishes to claim color as a distinctive feature
of the mark, a statement to that effect as well as the name or names of the
color or colors claimed and an indication, in respect of each color, of the
principal parts of the mark which are in that color;
(xi) where the mark is a three-dimensional mark, a statement to that
effect;
(xii) one or more reproductions of the mark;
(xiii) a transliteration of the mark or of certain parts of the mark;
(xiv) a translation of the mark or of certain parts of the mark;
(xv) the names of the goods and/or services for which the registration
is sought, grouped according to the classes of the Nice Classification, each
group preceded by the number of the class of that Classification to which that
group of goods or services belongs and presented in the order of the classes of
the said Classification;
(xvi) a signature by the person specified in paragraph (4);
(xvii) a declaration of intention to use the mark, as required by the
law of the Contracting Party.
(b) The applicant may file, instead of or in addition to the declaration
of intention to use the mark referred to in subparagraph (a)(xvii), a
declaration of actual use of the mark and evidence to that effect, as required
by the law of the Contracting Party.
(c) Any Contracting Party may require that, in respect of the
application, fees be paid to the Office.
(2) [Presentation]
As regards the requirements concerning the presentation of the application, no
Contracting Party shall refuse the application,
(i) where the application is presented in writing on paper, if it is
presented, subject to paragraph (3), on a form corresponding to the application
Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the application is so
transmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds,
subject to paragraph (3), to the application Form referred to in item (i).
(3) [Language]
Any Contracting Party may require that the application be in the language, or
in one of the languages, admitted by the Office. Where the Office admits more
than one language, the applicant may be required to comply with any other
language requirement applicable with respect to the Office, provided that the
application may not be required to be in more than one language.
(4) [Signature]
(a) The signature referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(xvi) may be the
signature of the applicant or the signature of his representative.
(b) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), any Contracting Party may require
that the declarations referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(xvii) and (1)(b) be
signed by the applicant himself even if he has a representative.
(5) [Single
Application for Goods and/or Services in Several Classes]
One and the same application may relate to several goods and/or services,
irrespective of whether they belong to one class or to several classes of the
Nice Classification.
(6) [Actual Use]
Any Contracting Party may require that, where a declaration of intention to use
has been filed under paragraph (1)(a)(xvii), the applicant furnish to the
Office within a time limit fixed in its law, subject to the minimum time limit
prescribed in the Regulations, evidence of the actual use of the mark, as
required by the said law.
(7) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) to (4) and (6) be complied with in respect of the
application. In particular, the following may not be required in respect of the
application throughout its pendency:
(i) the furnishing of any certificate of, or extract from, a register of
commerce;
(ii) an indication of the applicant's carrying on of an industrial or
commercial activity, as well as the furnishing of evidence to that effect;
(iii) an indication of the applicant's carrying on of an activity
corresponding to the goods and/or services listed in the application, as well
as the furnishing of evidence to that effect;
(iv) the furnishing of evidence to the effect that the mark has been
registered in the register of marks of another Contracting Party or of a State
party to the Paris Convention which is not a Contracting Party, except where
the applicant claims the application of Article 6quinquies of the Paris
Convention.
(8) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence be furnished to the Office in
the course of the examination of the application where the Office may
reasonably doubt the veracity of any indication or element contained in the
application.
Article 4
Representation; Address for Service
(1)
[Representatives Admitted to Practice]
Any Contracting Party may require that any person appointed as representative
for the purposes of any procedure before the Office be a representative
admitted to practice before the Office.
(2) [Mandatory
Representation; Address for Service]
(a) Any Contracting Party may require that, for the purposes of any
procedure before the Office, any person who has neither a domicile nor a real
and effective industrial or commercial establishment on its territory be
represented by a representative.
(b) Any Contracting Party may, to the extent that it does not require
representation in accordance with subparagraph (a), require that, for the
purposes of any procedure before the Office, any person who has neither a
domicile nor a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment on its
territory have an address for service on that territory.
(3) [Power of
Attorney]
(a) Whenever a Contracting Party allows or requires an applicant, a
holder or any other interested person to be represented by a representative
before the Office, it may require that the representative be appointed in a
separate communication (hereinafter referred to as ) indicating the name of,
and signed by, the applicant, the holder or the other person, as the case may
be.
(b) The power of attorney may relate to one or more applications and/or
registrations identified in the power of attorney or, subject to any exception
indicated by the appointing person, to all existing and future applications
and/or registrations of that person.
(c) The power of attorney may limit the powers of the representative to
certain acts. Any Contracting Party may require that any power of attorney
under which the representative has the right to withdraw an application or to
surrender a registration contain an express indication to that effect.
(d) Where a communication is submitted to the Office by a person who
refers to himself in the communication as a representative but where the Office
is, at the time of the receipt of the communication, not in possession of the
required power of attorney, the Contracting Party may require that the power of
attorney be submitted to the Office within the time limit fixed by the
Contracting Party, subject to the minimum time limit prescribed in the
Regulations. Any Contracting Party may provide that, where the power of
attorney has not been submitted to the Office within the time limit fixed by
the Contracting Party, the communication by the said person shall have no
effect.
(e) As regards the requirements concerning the presentation and contents
of the power of attorney, no Contracting Party shall refuse the effects of the
power of attorney,
(i) where the power of attorney is presented in writing on paper, if it
is presented, subject to paragraph (4), on a form corresponding to the power of
attorney Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the power of attorney is so
transmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds,
subject to paragraph (4), to the power of attorney Form referred to in item
(i).
(4) [Language]
Any Contracting Party may require that the power of attorney be in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(5) [Reference
to Power of Attorney]
Any Contracting Party may require that any communication made to the Office by
a representative for the purposes of a procedure before the Office contain a
reference to the power of attorney on the basis of which the representative
acts.
(6) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (3) to (5) be complied with in respect of the matters dealt with
in those paragraphs.
(7) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence be furnished to the Office
where the Office may reasonably doubt the veracity of any indication contained
in any communication referred to in paragraphs (2) to (5).
Article 5
Filing Date
(1) [Permitted
Requirements]
(a) Subject to subparagraph (b) and paragraph (2), a Contracting Party
shall accord as the filing date of an application the date on which the Office
received the following indications and elements in the language required under
Article 3(3):
(i) an express or implicit indication that the registration of a mark is
sought;
(ii) indications allowing the identity of the applicant to be
established;
(iii) indications sufficient to contact the applicant or his
representative, if any, by mail;
(iv) a sufficiently clear reproduction of the mark whose registration is
sought;
(v) the list of the goods and/or services for which the registration is
sought;
(vi) where Article 3(1)(a)(xvii) or 3(1)(b) applies, the declaration
referred to in Article 3(1)(a)(xvii) or the declaration and evidence referred
to in Article 3(1)(b), respectively, as required by the law of the Contracting
Party, those declarations being, if so required by the said law, signed by the
applicant himself even if he has a representative.
(b) Any Contracting Party may accord as the filing date of the
application the date on which the Office received only some, rather than all,
of the indications and elements referred to in subparagraph (a) or received
them in a language other than the language required under Article 3(3).
(2) [Permitted
Additional Requirement]
(a) A Contracting Party may provide that no filing date shall be
accorded until the required fees are paid.
(b) A Contracting Party may apply the requirement referred to in
subparagraph (a) only if it applied such requirement at the time of becoming
party to this Treaty.
(3) [Corrections
and Time Limits]
The modalities of, and time limits for, corrections under paragraphs (1) and
(2) shall be fixed in the Regulations.
(4) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) and (2) be complied with in respect of the filing date.
Article 6
Single Registration for Goods and/or Services in Several Classes
Where goods and/or services belonging to several classes of the Nice Classification have been included in one and the same application, such an application shall result in one and the same registration.
Article 7
Division of Application and Registration
(1) [Division of
Application]
(a) Any application listing several goods and/or services (hereinafter
referred to as ) may,
(i) at least until the decision by the Office on the registration of the
mark,
(ii) during any opposition proceedings against the decision of the
Office to register the mark,
(iii) during any appeal proceedings against the decision on the
registration of the mark, be divided by the applicant or at his request into
two or more applications (hereinafter referred to as ) by distributing among
the latter the goods and/or services listed in the initial application. The
divisional applications shall preserve the filing date of the initial
application and the benefit of the right of priority, if any.
(b) Any Contracting Party shall, subject to subparagraph (a), be free to
establish requirements for the division of an application, including the
payment of fees.
(2) [Division of
Registration]
Paragraph (1) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, with respect to a division of a
registration. Such a division shall be permitted
(i) during any proceedings in which the validity of the registration is
challenged before the Office by a third party,
(ii) during any appeal proceedings against a decision taken by the
Office during the former proceedings, provided that a Contracting Party may
exclude the possibility of the division of registrations if its law allows
third parties to oppose the registration of a mark before the mark is
registered.
Article 8
Signature
(1)
[Communication on Paper]
Where a communication to the Office of a Contracting Party is on paper and a
signature is required, that Contracting Party
(i) shall, subject to item (iii), accept a handwritten signature,
(ii) shall be free to allow, instead of a handwritten signature, the use
of other forms of signature, such as a printed or stamped signature, or the use
of a seal,
(iii) may, where the natural person who signs the communication is its
national and such person's address is in its territory, require that a seal be
used instead of a handwritten signature,
(iv) may, where a seal is used, require that the seal be accompanied by
an indication in letters of the name of the natural person whose seal is used.
(2)
[Communication by Telefacsimile]
(a) Where a Contracting Party allows the transmittal of communications
to the Office by telefacsimile, it shall consider the communication signed if,
on the printout produced by the telefacsimile, the reproduction of the
signature, or the reproduction of the seal together with, where required under
paragraph (1)(iv), the indication in letters of the name of the natural person
whose seal is used, appears.
(b) The Contracting Party referred to in subparagraph (a) may require
that the paper whose reproduction was transmitted by telefacsimile be filed
with the Office within a certain period, subject to the minimum period
prescribed in the Regulations.
(3)
[Communication by Electronic Means]
Where a Contracting Party allows the transmittal of communications to the
Office by electronic means, it shall consider the communication signed if the
latter identifies the sender of the communication by electronic means as
prescribed by the Contracting Party.
(4) [Prohibition
of Requirement of Certification]
No Contracting Party may require the attestation, notarization, authentication,
legalization or other certification of any signature or other means of
self-identification referred to in the preceding paragraphs, except, if the law
of the Contracting Party so provides, where the signature concerns the
surrender of a registration.
Article 9
Classification of Goods and/or Services
(1) [Indications
of Goods and/or Services]
Each registration and any publication effected by an Office which concerns an
application or registration and which indicates goods and/or services shall
indicate the goods and/or services by their names, grouped according to the
classes of the Nice Classification, and each group shall be preceded by the
number of the class of that Classification to which that group of goods or
services belongs and shall be presented in the order of the classes of the said
Classification.
(2) [Goods or
Services in the Same Class or in Different Classes]
(a) Goods or services may not be considered as being similar to each
other on the ground that, in any registration or publication by the Office,
they appear in the same class of the Nice Classification.
(b) Goods or services may not be considered as being dissimilar from
each other on the ground that, in any registration or publication by the
Office, they appear in different classes of the Nice Classification.
Article 10
Changes in Names or Addresses
(1) [Changes in
the Name or Address of the Holder]
(a) Where there is no change in the person of the holder but there is a
change in his name and/or address, each Contracting Party shall accept that a
request for the recordal of the change by the Office in its register of marks
be made in a communication signed by the holder or his representative and
indicating the registration number of the registration concerned and the change
to be recorded. As regards the requirements concerning the presentation of the
request, no Contracting Party shall refuse the request,
(i) where the request is presented in writing on paper, if it is
presented, subject to subparagraph (c), on a form corresponding to the request
Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the request is so
transmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds,
subject to subparagraph (c), to the request Form referred to in item (i).
(b) Any Contracting Party may require that the request indicate
(i) the name and address of the holder;
(ii) where the holder has a representative, the name and address of that
representative;
(iii) where the holder has an address for service, such address.
(c) Any Contracting Party may require that the request be in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(d) Any Contracting Party may require that, in respect of the request, a
fee be paid to the Office.
(e) A single request shall be sufficient even where the change relates
to more than one registration, provided that the registration numbers of all
registrations concerned are indicated in the request.
(2) [Change in
the Name or Address of the Applicant]
Paragraph (1) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, where the change concerns an
application or applications, or both an application or applications and a
registration or registrations, provided that, where the application number of
any application concerned has not yet been issued or is not known to the
applicant or his representative, the request otherwise identifies that
application as prescribed in the Regulations.
(3) [Change in
the Name or Address of the Representative or in the Address for Service]
Paragraph (1) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any change in the name or
address of the representative, if any, and to any change relating to the
address for service, if any.
(4) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) to (3) be complied with in respect of the request referred to
in this Article. In particular, the furnishing of any certificate concerning
the change may not be required.
(5) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence be furnished to the Office
where the Office may reasonably doubt the veracity of any indication contained
in the request.
Article 11
Change in Ownership
(1) [Change in
the Ownership of a Registration]
(a) Where there is a change in the person of the holder, each
Contracting Party shall accept that a request for the recordal of the change by
the Office in its register of marks be made in a communication signed by the
holder or his representative, or by the person who acquired the ownership
(hereinafter referred to as ) or his representative, and indicating the
registration number of the registration concerned and the change to be
recorded. As regards the requirements concerning the presentation of the
request, no Contracting Party shall refuse the request,
(i) where the request is presented in writing on paper, if it is
presented, subject to paragraph (2)(a), on a form corresponding to the request
Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the request is so
transmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds,
subject to paragraph (2)(a), to the request Form referred to in item (i).
(b) Where the change in ownership results from a contract, any
Contracting Party may require that the request indicate that fact and be
accompanied, at the option of the requesting party, by one of the following:
(i) a copy of the contract, which copy may be required to be certified,
by a notary public or any other competent public authority, as being in
conformity with the original contract;
(ii) an extract of the contract showing the change in ownership, which
extract may be required to be certified, by a notary public or any other
competent public authority, as being a true extract of the contract;
(iii) an uncertified certificate of transfer drawn up in the form and
with the content as prescribed in the Regulations and signed by both the holder
and the new owner;
(iv) an uncertified transfer document drawn up in the form and with the
content as prescribed in the Regulations and signed by both the holder and the
new owner.
(c) Where the change in ownership results from a merger, any Contracting
Party may require that the request indicate that fact and be accompanied by a
copy of a document, which document originates from the competent authority and
evidences the merger, such as a copy of an extract from a register of commerce,
and that that copy be certified by the authority which issued the document or
by a notary public or any other competent public authority, as being in
conformity with the original document.
(d) Where there is a change in the person of one or more but not all of
several co-holders and such change in ownership results from a contract or a
merger, any Contracting Party may require that any co-holder in respect of
which there is no change in ownership give his express consent to the change in
ownership in a document signed by him.
(e) Where the change in ownership does not result from a contract or a
merger but from another ground, for example, from operation of law or a court
decision, any Contracting Party may require that the request indicate that fact
and be accompanied by a copy of a document evidencing the change and that that
copy be certified as being in conformity with the original document by the
authority which issued the document or by a notary public or any other
competent public authority.
(f) Any Contracting Party may require that the request indicate
(i) the name and address of the holder;
(ii) the name and address of the new owner;
(iii) the name of a State of which the new owner is a national if he is
the national of any State, the name of a State in which the new owner has his
domicile, if any, and the name of a State in which the new owner has a real and
effective industrial or commercial establishment, if any;
(iv) where the new owner is a legal entity, the legal nature of that
legal entity and the State, and, where applicable, the territorial unit within
that State, under the law of which the said legal entity has been organized;
(v) where the holder has a representative, the name and address of that
representative;
(vi) where the holder has an address for service, such address;
(vii) where the new owner has a representative, the name and address of
that representative;
(viii) where the new owner is required to have an address for service
under Article 4(2)(b), such address.
(g) Any Contracting Party may require that, in respect of the request, a
fee be paid to the Office.
(h) A single request shall be sufficient even where the change relates
to more than one registration, provided that the holder and the new owner are
the same for each registration and that the registration numbers of all
registrations concerned are indicated in the request.
(i) Where the change of ownership does not affect all the goods and/or
services listed in the holder's registration, and the applicable law allows the
recording of such change, the Office shall create a separate registration
referring to the goods and/or services in respect of which the ownership has
changed.
(2) [Language;
Translation]
(a) Any Contracting Party may require that the request, the certificate
of transfer or the transfer document referred to in paragraph (1) be in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(b) Any Contracting Party may require that, if the documents referred to
in paragraph (1)(b)(i) and (1)(b)(ii), (1)(c) and (1)(e) are not in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office, the request be
accompanied by a translation or a certified translation of the required
document in the language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(3) [Change in
the Ownership of an Application]
Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, where the change in
ownership concerns an application or applications, or both an application or
applications and a registration or registrations, provided that, where the
application number of any application concerned has not yet been issued or is
not known to the applicant or his representative, the request otherwise
identifies that application as prescribed in the Regulations.
(4) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) to (3) be complied with in respect of the request referred to
in this Article. In particular, the following may not be required:
(i) subject to paragraph (1)(c), the furnishing of any certificate of,
or extract from, a register of commerce;
(ii) an indication of the new owner's carrying on of an industrial or
commercial activity, as well as the furnishing of evidence to that effect;
(iii) an indication of the new owner's carrying on of an activity
corresponding to the goods and/or services affected by the change in ownership,
as well as the furnishing of evidence to either effect;
(iv) an indication that the holder transferred, entirely or in part, his
business or the relevant goodwill to the new owner, as well as the furnishing
of evidence to either effect.
(5) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence, or further evidence where
paragraph (1)(c) or (1)(e) applies, be furnished to the Office where that
Office may reasonably doubt the veracity of any indication contained in the
request or in any document referred to in the present Article.
Article 12
Correction of a Mistake
(1) [Correction
of a Mistake in Respect of a Registration]
(a) Each Contracting Party shall accept that the request for the
correction of a mistake which was made in the application or other request
communicated to the Office and which mistake is reflected in its register of
marks and/or any publication by the Office be made in a communication signed by
the holder or his representative and indicating the registration number of the
registration concerned, the mistake to be corrected and the correction to be
entered. As regards the requirements concerning the presentation of the
request, no Contracting Party shall refuse the request,
(i) where the request is presented in writing on paper, if it is
presented, subject to subparagraph (c), on a form corresponding to the request
Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the request is so
transmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds,
subject to subparagraph (c), to the request Form referred to in item (i).
(b) Any Contracting Party may require that the request indicate
(i) the name and address of the holder;
(ii) where the holder has a representative, the name and address of that
representative;
(iii) where the holder has an address for service, such address.
(c) Any Contracting Party may require that the request be in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(d) Any Contracting Party may require that, in respect of the request, a
fee be paid to the Office.
(e) A single request shall be sufficient even where the correction
relates to more than one registration of the same person, provided that the
mistake and the requested correction are the same for each registration and
that the registration numbers of all registrations concerned are indicated in
the request.
(2) [Correction
of a Mistake in Respect of an Application]
Paragraph (1) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, where the mistake concerns an
application or applications, or both an application or applications and a
registration or registrations, provided that, where the application number of
any application concerned has not yet been issued or is not known to the
applicant or his representative, the request otherwise identifies that
application as prescribed in the Regulations.
(3) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) and (2) be complied with in respect of the request referred
to in this Article.
(4) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence be furnished to the Office
where the Office may reasonably doubt that the alleged mistake is in fact a
mistake.
(5) [Mistakes
Made by the Office]
The Office of a Contracting Party shall correct its own mistakes, ex officio or
upon request, for no fee.
(6)
[Uncorrectable Mistakes]
No Contracting Party shall be obliged to apply paragraphs (1), (2) and (5) to
any mistake which cannot be corrected under its law.
Article 13
Duration and Renewal of Registration
(1) [Indications
or Elements Contained in or Accompanying a Request for Renewal; Fee]
(a) Any Contracting Party may require that the renewal of a registration
be subject to the filing of a request and that such request contain some or all
of the following indications:
(i) an indication that renewal is sought;
(ii) the name and address of the holder;
(iii) the registration number of the registration concerned;
(iv) at the option of the Contracting Party, the filing date of the
application which resulted in the registration concerned or the registration
date of the registration concerned;
(v) where the holder has a representative, the name and address of that
representative;
(vi) where the holder has an address for service, such address;
(vii) where the Contracting Party allows the renewal of a registration
to be made for some only of the goods and/or services which are recorded in the
register of marks and such a renewal is requested, the names of the recorded
goods and/or services for which the renewal is requested or the names of the
recorded goods and/or services for which the renewal is not requested, grouped
according to the classes of the Nice Classification, each group preceded by the
number of the class of that Classification to which that group of goods or
services belongs and presented in the order of the classes of the said
Classification;
(viii) where a Contracting Party allows a request for renewal to be
filed by a person other than the holder or his representative and the request
is filed by such a person, the name and address of that person;
(ix) a signature by the holder or his representative or, where item
(viii) applies, a signature by the person referred to in that item.
(b) Any Contracting Party may require that, in respect of the request
for renewal, a fee be paid to the Office. Once the fee has been paid in respect
of the initial period of the registration or of any renewal period, no further
payment may be required for the maintenance of the registration in respect of
that period. Fees associated with the furnishing of a declaration and/or
evidence of use shall not be regarded, for the purposes of this subparagraph,
as payments required for the maintenance of the registration and shall not be
affected by this subparagraph.
(c) Any Contracting Party may require that the request for renewal be
presented, and the corresponding fee referred to in subparagraph (b) be paid,
to the Office within the period fixed by the law of the Contracting Party,
subject to the minimum periods prescribed in the Regulations.
(2)
[Presentation]
As regards the requirements concerning the presentation of the request for
renewal, no Contracting Party shall refuse the request,
(i) where the request is presented in writing on paper, if it is
presented, subject to paragraph (3), on a form corresponding to the request
Form provided for in the Regulations,
(ii) where the Contracting Party allows the transmittal of
communications to the Office by telefacsimile and the request is so transmitted,
if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds, subject to
paragraph (3), to the request Form referred to in item (i).
(3) [Language]
Any Contracting Party may require that the request for renewal be in the
language, or in one of the languages, admitted by the Office.
(4) [Prohibition
of Other Requirements]
No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to
in paragraphs (1) to (3) be complied with in respect of the request for
renewal. In particular, the following may not be required:
(i) any reproduction or other identification of the mark;
(ii) the furnishing of evidence to the effect that the mark has been
registered, or that its registration has been renewed, in the register of marks
of any other Contracting Party;
(iii) the furnishing of a declaration and/or evidence concerning use of
the mark.
(5) [Evidence]
Any Contracting Party may require that evidence be furnished to the Office in
the course of the examination of the request for renewal where the Office may
reasonably doubt the veracity of any indication or element contained in the
request for renewal.
(6) [Prohibition
of Substantive Examination]
No Office of a Contracting Party may, for the purposes of effecting the
renewal, examine the registration as to substance.
(7) [Duration]
The duration of the initial period of the registration, and the duration of
each renewal period, shall be 10 years.
Article 14
Observations in Case of Intended Refusal
An application or a request under Articles 10 to 13 may not be refused totally or in part by an Office without giving the applicant or the requesting party, as the case may be, an opportunity to make observations on the intended refusal within a reasonable time limit.
Article 15
Obligation to Comply with the Paris Convention
Any Contracting Party shall comply with the provisions of the Paris Convention which concern marks.
Article 16
Service Marks
Any Contracting Party shall register service marks and apply to such marks the provisions of the Paris Convention which concern trademarks.
Article 17
Regulations
(1) [Content]
(a) The Regulations annexed to this Treaty provide rules concerning
(i) matters which this Treaty expressly provides to be ;
(ii) any details useful in the implementation of the provisions of this Treaty;
(iii) any administrative requirements, matters or procedures.
(b) The Regulations also contain Model International Forms.
(2) [Conflict
Between the Treaty and the Regulations]
In the case of conflict between the provisions of this Treaty and those of the
Regulations, the former shall prevail.
Article 18
Revision; Protocols
(1) [Revision]
This Treaty may be revised by a diplomatic conference.
(2) [Protocols]
For the purposes of further developing the harmonization of laws on marks,
protocols may be adopted by a diplomatic conference insofar as those protocols
do not contravene the provisions of this Treaty.
Article 19
Becoming Party to the Treaty
(1)
[Eligibility]
The following entities may sign and, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and
Article 20(1) and 20(3), become party to this Treaty:
(i) any State member of the Organization in respect of which marks may
be registered with its own Office;
(ii) any intergovernmental organization which maintains an Office in
which marks may be registered with effect in the territory in which the
constituting treaty of the intergovernmental organization applies, in all its
member States or in those of its member States which are designated for such
purpose in the relevant application, provided that all the member States of the
intergovernmental organization are members of the Organization;
(iii) any State member of the Organization in respect of which marks may
be registered only through the Office of another specified State that is a
member of the Organization;
(iv) any State member of the Organization in respect of which marks may
be registered only through the Office maintained by an intergovernmental
organization of which that State is a member;
(v) any State member of the Organization in respect of which marks may
be registered only through an Office common to a group of States members of the
Organization.
(2)
[Ratification or Accession]
Any entity referred to in paragraph (1) may deposit
(i) an instrument of ratification, if it has signed this Treaty,
(ii) an instrument of accession, if it has not signed this Treaty.
(3) [Effective
Date of Deposit]
(a) Subject to subparagraph (b), the effective date of the deposit of an
instrument of ratification or accession shall be,
(i) in the case of a State referred to in paragraph (1)(i), the date on
which the instrument of that State is deposited;
(ii) in the case of an intergovernmental organization, the date on which
the instrument of that intergovernmental organization is deposited;
(iii) in the case of a State referred to in paragraph (1)(iii), the date
on which the following condition is fulfilled: the instrument of that State has
been deposited and the instrument of the other, specified State has been
deposited;
(iv) in the case of a State referred to in paragraph (1)(iv), the date
applicable under (ii), above;
(v) in the case of a State member of a group of States referred to in
paragraph (1)(v), the date on which the instruments of all the States members
of the group have been deposited.
(b) Any instrument of ratification or accession (referred to in this
subparagraph as ) of a State may be accompanied by a declaration making it a
condition to its being considered as deposited that the instrument of one other
State or one intergovernmental organization, or the instruments of two other
States, or the instruments of one other State and one intergovernmental
organization, specified by name and eligible to become party to this Treaty, is
or are also deposited. The instrument containing such a declaration shall be
considered to have been deposited on the day on which the condition indicated
in the declaration is fulfilled. However, when the deposit of any instrument
specified in the declaration is, itself, accompanied by a declaration of the
said kind, that instrument shall be considered as deposited on the day on which
the condition specified in the latter declaration is fulfilled.
(c) Any declaration made under paragraph (b) may be withdrawn, in its
entirety or in part, at any time. Any such withdrawal shall become effective on
the date on which the notification of withdrawal is received by the Director
General.
Article 20
Effective Date of Ratifications and Accessions
(1) [Instruments
to Be Taken Into Consideration]
For the purposes of this Article, only instruments of ratification or accession
that are deposited by entities referred to in Article 19(1) and that have an
effective date according to Article 19(3) shall be taken into consideration.
(2) [Entry Into
Force of the Treaty]
This Treaty shall enter into force three months after five States have
deposited their instruments of ratification or accession.
(3) [Entry Into
Force of Ratifications and Accessions Subsequent to the Entry Into Force of the
Treaty]
Any entity not covered by paragraph (2) shall become bound by this Treaty three
months after the date on which it has deposited its instrument of ratification
or accession.
Article 21
Reservations
(1) [Special
Kinds of Marks]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare through a reservation
that, notwithstanding Article 2(1)(a) and 2(2)(a), any of the provisions of
Articles 3(1) and 3(2), 5, 7, 11 and 13 shall not apply to associated marks,
defensive marks or derivative marks. Such reservation shall specify those of
the aforementioned provisions to which the reservation relates.
(2) [Modalities]
Any reservation under paragraph (1) shall be made in a declaration accompanying
the instrument of ratification of, or accession to, this Treaty of the State or
intergovernmental organization making the reservation.
(3) [Withdrawal]
Any reservation under paragraph (1) may be withdrawn at any time.
(4) [Prohibition
of Other Reservations]
No reservation to this Treaty other than the reservation allowed under
paragraph (1) shall be permitted.
Article 22
Transitional Provisions
(1) [Single
Application for Goods and Services in Several Classes; Division of Application]
(a) Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that,
notwithstanding Article 3(5), an application may be filed with the Office only
in respect of goods or services which belong to one class of the Nice
Classification.
(b) Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that,
notwithstanding Article 6, where goods and/or services belonging to several
classes of the Nice Classification have been included in one and the same
application, such application shall result in two or more registrations in the
register of marks, provided that each and every such registration shall bear a
reference to all other such registrations resulting from the said application.
(c) Any State or intergovernmental organization that has made a
declaration under subparagraph (a) may declare that, notwithstanding Article
7(1), no application may be divided.
(2) [Single
Power of Attorney for More Than One Application and/or Registration]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that, notwithstanding
Article 4(3)(b), a power of attorney may only relate to one application or one
registration.
(3) [Prohibition
of Requirement of Certification of Signature of Power of Attorney and of
Signature of Application]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that, notwithstanding
Article 8(4), the signature of a power of attorney or the signature by the
applicant of an application may be required to be the subject of an
attestation, notarization, authentication, legalization or other certification.
(4) [Single
Request for More Than One Application and/or Registration in Respect of a
Change in Name and/or Address, a Change in Ownership or a
Correction of a Mistake]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that, notwithstanding
Article 10(1)(e), 10(2) and 10(3), Article 11(1)(h) and 11(3) and Article
12(1)(e) and 12(2), a request for the recordal of a change in name and/or
address, a request for the recordal of a change in ownership and a request for
the correction of a mistake may only relate to one application or one
registration.
(5) [Furnishing,
on the Occasion of Renewal, of Declaration and/or Evidence Concerning Use]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that, notwithstanding
Article 13(4)(iii), it will require, on the occasion of renewal, the furnishing
of a declaration and/or of evidence concerning use of the mark.
(6) [Substantive
Examination on the Occasion of Renewal]
Any State or intergovernmental organization may declare that, notwithstanding
Article 13(6), the Office may, on the occasion of the first renewal of a registration
covering services, examine such registration as to substance, provided that
such examination shall be limited to the elimination of multiple registrations
based on applications filed during a period of six months following the entry
into force of the law of such State or organization that introduced, before the
entry into force of this Treaty, the possibility of registering service marks.
(7) [Common
Provisions]
(a) A State or an intergovernmental organization may make a declaration
under paragraphs (1) to (6) only if, at the time of depositing its instrument
of ratification of, or accession to, this Treaty, the continued application of
its law would, without such a declaration, be contrary to the relevant
provisions of this Treaty.
(b) Any declaration under paragraphs (1) to (6) shall accompany the
instrument of ratification of, or accession to, this Treaty of the State or
intergovernmental organization making the declaration.
(c) Any declaration made under paragraphs (1) to (6) may be withdrawn at
any time.
(8) [Loss of
Effect of Declaration]
(a) Subject to subparagraph (c), any declaration made under paragraphs
(1) to (6) by a State regarded as a developing country in conformity with the
established practice of the General Assembly of the United Nations, or by an
intergovernmental organization each member of which is such a State, shall lose
its effect at the end of a period of eight years from the date of entry into
force of this Treaty.
(b) Subject to subparagraph (c), any declaration made under paragraphs
(1) to (6) by a State other than a State referred to in subparagraph (a), or by
an intergovernmental organization other than an intergovernmental organization
referred to in subparagraph (a), shall lose its effect at the end of a period
of six years from the date of entry into force of this Treaty.
(c) Where a declaration made under paragraphs (1) to (6) has not been
withdrawn under paragraph (7)(c), or has not lost its effect under subparagraph
(a) or (b), before October 28, 2004, it shall lose its effect on October 28,
2004.
(9) [Becoming
Party to the Treaty]
Until December 31, 1999, any State which, on the date of the adoption of this
Treaty, is a member of the International (Paris) Union for the Protection of
Industrial Property without being a member of the Organization may,
notwithstanding Article 19(1)(i), become a party to this Treaty if marks may be
registered with its own Office.
Article 23
Denunciation of the Treaty
(1)
[Notification]
Any Contracting Party may denounce this Treaty by notification addressed to the
Director General.
(2) [Effective
Date]
Denunciation shall take effect one year from the date on which the Director
General has received the notification. It shall not affect the application of
this Treaty to any application pending or any mark registered in respect of the
denouncing Contracting Party at the time of the expiration of the said one-year
period, provided that the denouncing Contracting Party may, after the expiration
of the said one-year period, discontinue applying this Treaty to any
registration as from the date on which that registration is due for renewal.
Article 24
Languages of the Treaty; Signature
(1) [Original
Texts; Official Texts]
(a) This Treaty shall be signed in a single original in the English,
Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish languages, all texts being equally
authentic.
(b) At the request of a Contracting Party, an official text in a
language not referred to in subparagraph (a) that is an official language of
that Contracting Party shall be established by the Director General after
consultation with the said Contracting Party and any other interested
Contracting Party.
(2) [Time Limit
for Signature]
This Treaty shall remain open for signature at the headquarters of the
Organization for one year after its adoption.
Article 25
Depositary
The Director General shall be the depositary of this Treaty.
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