Canada: Long Time Coming: New Trademarks Act Coming Into Force June 2019 Last Updated: November 26 2018 Article by Michelle Nelles and Kevin TuohyTorys LLP Nearly five years after receiving royal assent, amendments to the Trademarks Act will come into force on June 17, 2019. The federal government made the announcement through publishing the new Trademark Regulations in the Canada Gazette II on November 14.1
Set to come into effect next year, the legislative changes to the Trade-marks Act will bring Canada in line with international treaties and make trademark applications faster. But the changes will likely cause uncertainty for trademark lawyers, and the removal of the use requirement may open up the trademarks register to a flood of speculation.
On July 3, 2018, the Kazakh government introduced amendments to the Civil Code, Tax Code, Patent Law, Trademark Law and some other laws by virtue of the Law on Amending and Complementing Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Related to the Improvement of the Intellectual Property Legislation (hereinafter referred to as the Law). The changes are aimed at modernisation and simplification of the IP registration system in the country. While the changes in the legal procedures related to patent
The Albanian General Directorate of Industrial Property (GDIP) has recently published Decision No. 315 on the Approval of Regulations for Registration of Trademarks and Service Marks, which came into effect on June 6, 2018. The new regulations are in compliance with Law No. 9947 of July 7, 2008 “On Industrial Property”, which underwent major changes back in 2013, 2014 and 2017. The amended regulations define the concepts and types of trademarks and service marks for which protection may be sought (e.g. pos
En el presente año, la Ley de la Propiedad Industrial ha tenido cambios significativos en la protección de la creatividad, así como en diversos trámites, tarifas y definiciones de algunas figuras de protección.
異議申立手続では、メキシコ知的財産庁(the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI))は異議申立があった場合には出願を進めることなく、それぞれついて決定をする必要があります。
また、施行日以降に登録された全ての商標は登録3年目の応当日から延長できない3か月以内の期間で使用宣誓書(declaration of use)を提出する必要があり、更新時にも実際の使用について使用証明書を提出する必要があります。他の類の商品の使用では、証明できない規則になっています。もし使用証明を提出しない場合には、商標権は失効します。また、商標登録出願には、メキシコでの最初の使用日を申告する必要があります。