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Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 - all change?

By Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon.

Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark, which codifies (and repeals) Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark and its amendments, entered into force on Monday 13 April 2009.

This cat has just reviewed the changes to the Council Regulation

So, what has changed? The good news is that there is no change in the numbers of Articles 1 - 36, which means that all references to Article 7 (examination) and Article 8 (oppositions) are unaffected. However, oppositions are affected in other Articles. Furthermore, Articles referring to cancellations and appeals have changed as well as references to Articles 37 - 160.

If this sounds slightly confusing: the OHIM has published some helpful documentation which can be accessed via the links set out below.

• Correlation table listing changes to Article numbers
• Annotated version of Implementing Regulation
• Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark

Merpel just can't help wondering why the numbers of Articles had to change at all...

Full post as published by IPKat on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).