Oleh: PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA
Nomor: 17 TAHUN 1997 (17/1997)
Tanggal: 7 MEI 1997 (JAKARTA)
Sumber: LN NO. 1997/34
Tentang: PENGESAHAN TRADEMARK LAW TREATY
Presiden Republik Indonesia
Menimbang :
a. bahwa sebagai hasil persidangan Negara-negara Anggota World Intellectual Property Organization di Jenewa, Swiss pada tanggal 28 Oktober 1995, telah diterima Trademark Law Treaty;
b. bahwa sehubungan dengan itu, dan sesuai dengan Amanat Presiden Republik Indonesia kepada Ketua Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Nomor 2826/HK/1960 tanggal 22 Agustus 1960 tentang Pembuatan Perjanjian-perjanjian dengan Negara Lain, dipandang perlu untuk mengesahkan Treaty tersebut dengan Keputusan Presiden;
Mengingat :
Pasal 4 ayat (1) Undang-undang Dasar 1945;
MEMUTUSKAN :
Menetapkan :
KEPUTUSAN PRESIDEN TENTANG PENGESAHAN TRADEMARK LAW TREATY.
Pasal 1
Mengesahkan Trademark Law Treaty sebagai hasil persidangan dan diterima oleh Negara-negara Anggota World Intellectual Property Organization di Jenewa, Swiss pada tanggal 28 Oktober 1995, yang salinan naskah aslinya dalam bahasa Inggeris sebagaimana terlampir pada Keputusan Presiden ini.
Pasal 2
Keputusan Presiden ini mulai berlaku pada tanggal ditetapkan.
Agar setiap orang mengetahuinya, memerintahkan pengundangan Keputusan Presiden ini dengan penempatannya dalam Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia.
Ditetapkan di Jakarta
pada tanggal 7 Mei 1997
PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA
SOEHARTO
Diundangkan di Jakarta
pada tanggal 7 Mei 1997
MENTERI NEGARA SEKRETARIS NEGARA
REPUBLIK INDONESIA
MOERDIONO
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CATATAN
Trademark Law Treaty
and
Regulations
Done at Geneva on October 27, 1994
World Intellectual Property Organization
GENEVA 1995
CONTENTS
Treaty ............................
page 3
Regulations ....................... page 35
WIPO PUBLICATION
No. 225 (E)
ISBN 92-805-0568-8
WIPO 1994
Reprinted 1995
TRADEMARK LAW TREATY
List of Articles
Article 1: Abbreviated Expressions
Article 2: Marks to Which the Treaty Applies
Article 3: Application
Article 4: Representation; Address for Service
Article 5: Filing Date
Article 6: Single Registration for Goods and/or Services in Several Clasess
Article 7: Division of Application and Registration
Article 8: Signature
Article 9: Classification of Goods and/or Services
Article 10: Changes in Names or Addresses
Article 11: Change in Ownership
Article 12: Correction of a Mistake
Article 13: Duration and Renewal of Registration
Article 14: Observations in Case of Intended Refusal
Article 15: Obligation to Comply with the Paris Convention
Article 16: Service Marks
Article 17: Regulations
Article 18: Revision; Protocols
Article 19: Becoming Party to the Treaty
Article 20: Effective Date of Ratification and Accessions
Article 21: Reservations
Article 22: Transitional Provisions
Article 23: Denunciation of the Treaty
Article 24: Languages of the Treaty; Signature
Article 25: Depositary
Article 1
Abbreviated Expressions
For the purposes of this Treaty, unless expressly stated otherwise:
(i) "Office" means
the agency entrusted by a Contracting Party with the registration of marks;
(ii) "registration" menas the registration of a mark by an Office;
(iii)"application" means an application for registration;
(iv) references to a "person" shall be construed as references to
both natural person and a legal entity;
(v) "holder" means the person whom the register of marks shows as
the holder of registration;
(vi) "register of marks" 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)"Paris Convention" means the Paris Convention for the Protection
of Industrial Property, signed at Paris on March 20, 1883, as revised and amended'
(viii)"Nice Classification" 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) "Contracting Party" means any State or intergovernmental organization
party to this Treaty;
(x) references to an "instrument of ratification" shall be construed
as including references to instruments of acceptance and approval;
(xi) "Organization" means the World Intellectual Property Organization"
(xii)"Director General" means the Director General of the Organization;
(xiii)"Regulations" means the Regulations under this Treaty that are
refrred 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 of 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 wishers 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 refered 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 more 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 (b) be signed by
the applicant himself even if he has a representative.
(5) [Single Application for Goods and/or Service 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 compiledwith in respect of the application. In particular, the following may not ber 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 requier that any person appointed as representative for the purposes 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 territoty 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 "power of attorney") 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 presentative 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 trasmitted, if the paper copy resulting from such transmittal corresponds, subject to paragraph (4), to the power of attorney from 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 paragraph (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 marks 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 sufficienty 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 (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 paragrapha (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 (a) be complied with in respect of the filing date.
Article 6
Single Registration for Goods and/or Servies in Several Clasess
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 "initial application") 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 "divisional applications") 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 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 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 on 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 gorund 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, 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"new owner") 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 register of commerce, and 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 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 changer 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 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 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, wher applicable, the territorial unit within that State,
under the law of which the said legal entity has been recognized;
(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 appicable 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 (ii), (c) and (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 reqired 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 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 the 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 (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) [Correstion 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 corection 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 correspond, 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 servcie, 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 registration or registration, 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 mistakes 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) [Indication 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:
(1) 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 addres 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 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 classe 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 hall 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 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 request under Article 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 his Treaty provide rules concerning
(i) matters which this Treaty
expressly provides to be "prescribed in the Regulations",
(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 in so far 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 (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 intergovermental 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 accesion, if it has 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 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 "instrument") 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 speciefied 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 withdraw, in its entirerty
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 Ratification 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 trough a reservation that, notwithstanding Article 2(1)(a) and (2)(a), any of the provisions of Articles 3(1) and (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 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 registration in the register of marks, provided that each and every such registration shall bear a reference to all other such registration 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 certificatio.
(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), (2) and (3), Article 11(1)(h) and (3) and Article 12(1)(e) and (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 accesion 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, or accession to, this Treaty of the State or intergovernmental organization making the declaration.
(c) Any declaration made under paragraph (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 (5) by a State regarded as a developing country in conformity with the established practice of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 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 (5) 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 (5) 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, dicontinue 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 head quarters of the Organization for one year after its adoption.
Article 25
Depositary
The Director General shall be the depositary of this Treaty.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE
TRADEMARK LAW TREATY
List of Rules
Rule 1: Abbreviated Expressions
Rule 2: Manner of Indicating Names and Addresses
Rule 3: Details Concerning the Application
Rule 4: Details Concerning Representation
Rule 5: Details Concerning the Filing Date
Rule 6: Details Concerning Signature
Rule 7: Manner of Identification of an Application Without Its Application Number
Rule 8: Details Concerning Duration and Renewal
List of Model International Forms
Form No.1 : Application
for the Registration of a Mark
Form No.2 : Power of Attorney
Form No.3 : Request for the Recordal of Change(s) in Name(s) and/or Address(es)
Form No.4 : Request for the Recordal of a change in Ownership in Respect of
Registration(s) and/or Application(s) for Registration of Marks
Form No.5 : Certificate of Transfer in Respect of Registration(s) and/or Application(s)
for Registration of Marks.
Form No.6 : Transfer Document in Respect of Registration(s) and/or Application(s)
for Registration of Marks.
Form No.7 : Request for the Correction of Mistake(s) in Registration(s) and/or
Application(s) for Registration(s) of Marks)
Form No.8 : Request for the renewal of a Registration
Rule 1
Abbreviated Expressions
(1) ["Treaty"; "Article:] (a) In these Regulations, the word "Treaty" means the Trademark Law Treaty.
(b) In these Regulations, the word "Article: refers to the specified Article of the Treaty.
(2) [Abbreviated Expressions Defined in the Treaty] The abbreviated expressions defined in Article 1 for the purposes of the Treaty shall have the same meaning for the purposes of the Regulations.
Rule 2
Manner of Indicating Names and Addresses
(1) [Names] (a) Where the name of a person is to be indicated, any Contracting Party may require,
(i) where the person is
a natural person, that the name to be indicated be the family or principal name
and the given or secondary name or names of that person or that the name to
be indicated be, at that person's option, the name or names customarily used
by the said person;
(ii) where the person is a legal entity, that the name to be indicated be the
full official designation of the legal entity.
(b) Where the name of a representative which is a firm or partnership is to be indicated, any Contracting Party shall accept as indication of the name the indication that the firm or partnership customarily uses.
(2) [Address] (a) Where the address of a person is to be indicated, any Contracting Party may require that the address be indicated in such way as to satisfy the customary requirements for prompt postal delivery at the indicated address and, in any case, consist of all the relevant administrative units up to, and including, the house or building number, if any.
(b) Where a communication to the Office of a Contracting Party is in the name of two or more persons with different addresses, that Contracting Party may require that such communication indicate a single address as the address for correspondence.
(c) The indication of an address may contaion a telephone number and a telefacsimile number and, for the purposes of correspondence, an address different from the address indicated under subparagraph (a).
(d) Subparagraph (a) and (c) shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to addresses for service.
(3) [Script to Be Used] Any Contracting Party may require that any indication referred to in paragraph (1) and (2) be in the script used by the Office.
Rule 3
Details Concerning the Application
(1) [Standard Characters] Where, pursuant to Article 3(1)(a)(ix), the application contains a statement to the effect that the applicant wishes that the mark be registered and published in the standard characters used by the Office of the Contracting Party, the Office shall register and publish that mark in such standard characters.
(2) [Number of Reproductions] (a) Where the application does not contain a statements to the effect that the applicant wishes to claim color as a distinctive feature of the mark, a Contracting Party may not require more than.
(i) five reproductions of the mark in black and white where the application may not, under the law of that Contracting Party or does not contain a statement to the effect that the applicant wishes the mark to be registered and published in the standard characters used by the Office of the said Contracting Party;
(ii) one reproduction of the mark in black and white where the application contains a statement to the effect that the applicant wishes the mark to be registered and published in the standard characters used by the Office of that Contracting Party.
(b) Where the application contains a statement to the effect that the applicant wishes to claim color as a distinctive feature of the mark, a Contracting Party may not require more than five reproductions of the mark in black and white and five reproductions of the mark in color.
(3) [Reproduction of a There-Dimensional Mark] (a) Where, pursuant to Article 3(1)(a)(xi), the application contains a statement to the effect that the mark is a three-dimensional mark, the reproduction of the mark shall consist of a two-dimensional graphic or photographic reproduction.
(b) The reproduction furnished under subparagraph (a) may, at the option of the applicant, consist of one single view of the mark or of several different views of the mark.
(c) Where the Office considers that the reproduction of the mark furnished by the applicant under subparagraph (a) does not sufficiently show the particulars of the three-dimensional mark, it may invite the applicant to furnish, within a reasonable time limit fixed in the invitation, up to six different views of the mark and/or a description by words of that mark.
(d) Where the Office considers that the different views and/or the description of the mark referred to in subparagraph (c) still do not sufficiently show the particulars of the three-dimensional mark, it may invite the applicant to furnish, within a reasonable time limit fixed in the invitation, a specimen of the mark.
(e) Paragraph (2)(a)(i) and (b) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(4) [Transliteration of the Mark] For the purposes of Article 3(1)(a)(xiii), where the mark consists of or contains matter in script other than the script used by the Office or numbers expressed in numerals other than numerals used by the Office, a transliteration of such matter in the script and numerals used by the Office may be required.
(5) [Translation of the Mark] For the purposes of Article 3(10)(a)(xiv), where the mark consists of or contains a word or words in a language other than the language, or one of the languages, admitted by the Office, a translation of that word or those word into that language or one of those languages may be required.
(6) [Time Limit for Furnishing Evidence of Actual Use of the Mark] The time limit referred to in Article 3(6) shall not be shorter than six months counted from the date of allowance of the application by the Office of the Contracting Party where that application was filed. The applicant or holder shall have the right to an extension of that time limit, subject to the conditions provided for by the law of that Contracting Party, by periods of at least six months each, up to a total extension of at least two years and a half.
Rule 4
Details Concerning Representation
The time limit referred to in Article 4(3)(d) shall be counted from the date of receipt of the communication referred to in that Article by the Office of the Contracting Party concerned and shall not be less than one month where the address of the person on whose behalf the communication is made is on the territory of that Contracting Party and not less than two months where such an address is outside the territory of that Contracting Party.
Rule 5
Details Concerning the Filing Date
(1) [Procedure in Case of Non-Compliance with Requirements] If the Application does not, at the time of its receipt by the Office, comply with any of the applicable requirements of Article 5(1)(a) or (2)(a), the Office shall promptly invite the applicant to comply with such requirements within a time limit indicated in the invitation, which time limit shall be at least one month from the date of the invitation where the applicant's address is on the territory of the Contracting Party concerned and at least two months where the applicant's address is outside the territory of the Contracting Party concerned. Compliance with the invitation may be subject to the payment of a special fee. Even if the Office fails to send the said invitation, the said requirements remain unaffected.
(2) [Filing Date in Case of Correction] If, within the time limit indicated in the invitation, the applicant complies with the invitation referred to in paragraph (1) and pays any required special fee, the filing date shall be the date on which all the required indications and elements referred to in Article 5(1)(a) have been received by the Office and, where applicable, the required fee reffered to in Article 5(2)(a) has been paid to the Office. Otherwise, the application shall be treated as if it had not been filed.
(3) [Date of Receipt] Each Contracting Party shall be fee to determine the circumstances in which the receipt of a document or the payment of a fee shall be deemed to constitute receipt by or payment to the Office in cases in which the document was actually received by or payment was actually made to
(i) a branch or sub-office
of the Office,
(ii) a national Office on behalf of the Office of the Contracting Party, where
the Contracting Party is an intergovernmental organization referred to in Article
19(1)(ii),
(iii)an official postal service,
(iv) a delivery service, other than an official postal service, specified by
the Contracting Party.
(4) [Use of Telefacsimile] Where a Contracting Party allows the filing of an application by telefacsimile and the application is filed by telefacsimile, the date of receipt of the telefacsimile by the Office of that Contracting Party shall constitute the date of receipt of the application, provided that the said Contracting Party may require that the original of such application reach the Office within a time limit which shall be at least one month from the day on which the telefacsimile was received by the said Office.
Rule 6
Details Concerning the Signature
(1) [Legal Entities] Where a communication is signed on behalf of a legal entity, any Contracting Party may require that the signature, or the seal, of the natural person who signs or whose seal is used be accompanied by an indication in letters of the family or principal name and the given or secondary name or names of that person or, at the option of that person, of the name or names customarily used by the said person.
(2) [Communication by Telefacsimile] The period referred to in Article 8(2)(b) shall not be less than one month from the date of the receipt of a transmittal by telefacsimile.
(3) [Date] Any Contracting Party may require that a signature or seal be accompanied by an indication of the date on which the signing or sealing was effected. Where that indication is required but is not supplied, the date on which the signing or sealing is deemed to have been effected shall be the date on which the communication bearing the signature or seal was received by the Office or, if the Contracting Party so allows, a date earlier than the latter date.
Rule 7
Manner of Identification
of an Application
Without Its Application Number
(1) [Manner of Identification] Where it is required that an application be identified by its application number but where such a number has not yet been issued or is not known to the applicant or his representative, that application shall be considered identified if the following is supplied:
(i) the provisional application number if any, given by the Office, or
(ii) a copy of the application, or
(iii)a reproduction of the mark, accompanied by an indication of the date on which, to the best knowledge of the applicant or the representative, the application was received by the Office and an identification number given to the application by the applicant or the representative.
(2) [Prohibition of Other Requirements] No Contracting Party may demand that requirements other than those referred to in paragraph (1) be complied with in order for an application to be identified where its application number has not yet been issued or is not known to the applicant or his representative.
Rule 8
Details Concerning Duration and Renewal
For the purposes of Article 13(1)(c), the period during which the request for renewal may be presented and the renewal fee may be paid shall start at least six months before the date on which the renewal is due and shall end at the earliest six months after that date. If the request for renewal is presented and/or the renewal fees are paid after the date on which the renewal is due, any Contracting Party may subject the renewal to the payment of a surcharge.
MODEL INTERNATIONAL FORM NO 1
APPLICATION FOR THE REGISTRATION OF A MARK
Submitted to the Office of
For Office use only
Reference number of applicant:*REFR
DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="1">1
Reference number of representative:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="1">1
1. Request Registration
Registration of the mark reproduced in the present application is hereby requested.
Form No 1, page 2
2. Applicant(s)
2.1 If the applicant is a natural person, the persons.
(a) family or principal
names: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="2">2
(b) given or secondary names (s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="2">2
2.2 If the applicant is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
2.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
2.4 State of nationality:
State of domicile:
State of establishment:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="3">3
2.5 Where the applicant is a legal entity, indicate
- the legal nature of the
legal entity:
- the State, and, where applicable, the territorial unit within that State,
under the law of which the legal entity is organized:
2.6 Check this box if there is more than one applicant; in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate. In respect of each of them, the data referred to in items 2.1 or 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5.*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="4">4
Form No 1, Page 3
3. Representative
3.1 The applicant is not represented.
3.2 The applicant is represented.
3.2.1 Identification of the representative
3.2.1.1 Name:
3.2.1.2 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
3.2.2 The power of attorney is already in the possession of the Office. Serial number: ..............*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="5">5
3.2.3 The power of attorney is attached.
3.2.4 The power of attorney will be furnished at a later date.
3.2.5 No power of attorney is needed.
4. Address for Service *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="6">6
Form No 1, page 4
5. Claiming of Priority
The applicant hereby claims the following priority:
5.1 Country (Office) of
first filing:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="7">7
5.2 Date of first filing:
5.3 Application number of first filing (if available):
5.4 The certified copy of the application the priority of which is claimed *REFR
DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="8">8
5.4.1 is attached.
5.2.2 will be furnished within three months from the filing date of the present application.
5.5 The translation of the certified copy
5.5.1 is attached.
5.5.2 will be furnished within three months from the filing date of the present application.
5.6 Check this box if there is more than one filing whose priority is claimed; in that case, list them in an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the information referred to in items 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 and the goods and/or services mentioned in each of them.
Form No 1, page 5
6. Registration (s) in the Country (Office) of Origin *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="9">9
The certification (s) of registration in the country (Office) of origin is (are) attached.
7. Protection Resulting From Display in an Exhibition
Check this box if the applicant wishes to take advantage of any protection resulting from the display of goods and/or services in an exhibition. In that case, give the details on an additional sheet.
8. Reproduction of the Mark
(8 cm x 8 cm)
Form No 1, page 6
8.1 The applicant wishes that the Office register and publish the mark in the standard characters used by it *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="10">10
8.2 Color is claimed as a distinctive feature of the mark
8.2.1 Name (s) of the color (s) claimed:
8.2.2 Principal parts of the mark which are in that (those) color (s):
8.3 The mark is three-dimensional.
....*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="11">11 different views of the mark are attached.
8.4 ....*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="12">12 reproduction (s) of the mark in black and white is (are) attached.
8.5 *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="12">12 reproduction (s) of the mark in color is (are) attached.
9. Transliteration of the Mark
The mark or part of the mark is transliterated as follows:
10. Transliteration of the Mark
The mark or part of the mark is translated as follows:
Form No 1, page 7
11. Goods and/or Services
Names of the goods and/or services: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="13">13
Check this box if the space above is not sufficient; in that case, give the
names of the goods and/or services on an additional sheet.
12. Declaration Concerning Intention to Use or Actual Use, Evidence of Actual Use
12.1 Check this box if a declaration in attached.
12.2 Check this box if a avidence of actual use in attached.
13. Requirements Relating to Languages
Check this box if an attachment is enclosed in order to comply with any language requirement applicable with respect to the Office.*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="14">14
Form No 1, page 8
14. Signature or Seal
14.1 Name of the natural person who signs or whose seal is used:
14.2 Check the appropriate box according to whether the signature is given, or the seal is used, by or on behalf of the
14.3 Date of signature or of sealings:
14.2.1 applicant
14.2.2 representative
14.4 Signature or seal:
15 Fee(s)
15.1 Currency and amount (s) of the fee (s) paid in connection with the present application:
15.2 Method of payment:
16. Additional Sheets and Attachments
Check this box if additional sheets and/or attachments are enclosed and indicate the total number of such sheets and/or attachments:
MODEL INTERNATIONAL FORM NO 2
POWER OF ATTORNEY
for procedures before the Office of ......
for Office use only
Reference number of person making the appointment:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="15">15
1. Appointment
The undersigned hereby appoints as his representative the person identified in item 3, below.
2. Name of the Person Making the Appointment *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="16">16
3. Representative
3.1 Name:
3.2 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
Form No 2, page 2
4. Application(s) and/or Registration(s) Concerned
This power of attorney concerns:
4.1 all existing and future applications and/or registrations of the person making the appointment, subject to any exceptions indicated on an additional sheet.
4.2 the following application(s) and/or registration(s):
4.2.1 the applicantion(s) concerning the following marks(s):*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="17">17
4.2.2 the application(s) having the following application number(s) *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="18">18 as well as any registration(s) resulting therefrom:
4.2.3 the registration(s) having the following registration number(s):
4.2.4 if the spaces under 4.2.1, 4.2.2, or 4.2.3 are not sufficient, check this box and provide the Information on an additional sheet.
Form No 2, page 3
5. Scope of the Power of Attorney
5.1 Check this box if the representative has the right to act as representative for all purposes, including, where the person making the appointment is an applicant or a holder, the following purposes.
5.1.1 withdrawal of the application(s)
5.1.2 surrender of the registration(s)
5.2. Check this box if the representative does not have the right to act as representative for all purposes and indicate here or on an additional sheet the purposes excluded from the powers of the representative:
6. Signature or Seal
6.1 Name of the natural person who signs or whose seal is used:
6.2 Date of signature or of sealing:
6.3 Signature or seal:
7. Additional Sheets and Attachments
Check this box if additional sheet and/or attachments are enclosed and indicate the total number of such sheets and or attachments:
MODEL INTERNATIONAL FORM No 3
REQUEST FOR THE RECORDAL OF CHANGE(S) IN NAME(S) OR ADDRESS(ES)
in respect of registration(s) and/or applciation(s) for registration of mark(s)
submitted to the Office of
For Office use only
Reference number of holder and/or applicant: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="19">19
Reference number of representative: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="19">19
1. Request for Recordal
The recordal of the change(s) indicated in the present request is hereby requested.
2. Registration(s) and/or Application(s) Concerned:
The present request concerns the following registration(s) and/or application(s):
2.1 Registration number(s):
2.2 Application number(s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="20">20
2.3 If the spaces under 2.1 or 2.2 are not sufficient, check this box and provide the information on an additional sheet.
Form No 3, page 2
3. Holder(s) and/or Applicant(s)
3.1 If the holder and/or applicant is a natural person, the person's
(a) family or principal name: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="21">21
(b) given or secondary name (s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="21">21
3.2 If the holder and/or applicant is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
3.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
number (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
3.4 Check this box if there is more than one holder and/or applicant; in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the date referred to in items 3.1 or 3.2 and 3.3.
4. Representative
4.1 Name:
4.2 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
4.3 Serial number of the power of attorney: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="22">22
5. Address for Service
Form No 3, Page 3
6. Indication of the Change(s)
6.1 Date to be changed:
Data as changed: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="23">23
6.2 Check this box if the above space is insufficient; in that case, indicate on an additional sheet the data to be changed with the data as changed.
7. Signature or Seal
7.1 Name of the natural person who signs or whose seal is used:
7.2 Check the appropriate box according to whether the signature is given, or the seal is used, by or an behalf of the
7.2. 1 holder and/or applicant.
7.2.2 representative
7.3 Data of signature or of sealing:
7.4 Signature or seal:
Form No 3, page 4
8. Fee
8.1 Currency and amount
of the fee paid in connection with the present request for the recordal of change(s):
8.2 Method of payment:
9. Additional Sheets and Attachments
Check this box if additional sheets and/or attachments are enclosed and indicate the total number of such sheets and/or attachments:
MODEL INTERNATIONAL FORM No 4
REQUEST FOR THE RECORDAL
OF A CHANGE
IN OWNERSHIP
in respect of registration(s) and/or applciation(s) for registration of mark(s)
submitted to the Office of
For Office use only
Reference number of holder and/or applicant:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="24">24
Reference number of representative:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="24">24
1. Request for Recordal
The recordal of the change in ownership indicated in the present request is hereby requested.
2. Registration(s) and/or Application(s) Concerned:
The present request concerns the following registration(s) and/or application(s):
2.1 Registration number(s):
2.2 Application number(s):*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="25">25
2.3 If the spaces under 2.1 or 2,3 are not sufficient, check this box and provide the information on an additional sheet.
3. Goods and/or Services Affected by the Change
3.1 Check this box where all the goods and/or services listed in the application(s) and/or registration(s) referred to in item 2 are affected by the change.
3.2 Check this box where item 2 mentions only one application or registration and where only some of the goods and/or services listed in that application or registration are affected by the change and indicate the goods and/or services that should appear in the application or registration of the new owner (in which case the goods and/or services not indicated will remain in the application or registration of the applicant or holders):
3.3. Check this box where item 2 mentions more than one application or registration and if in respect of at least one of them change effects less than all the goods and/or services listed. In this case, indicate on an additional sheet, separately in respect of each application and/or registration, whether the change affects all the goods and.or services or only some of them. In respect of any application or registration where only some of the goods and/or services are affected by the change, make the indication in the way specified in item 3.2.
Form No 4, page 3
4. Basis for the Change in Ownership
4.1 The change in ownership results from a contract.
One of the following documents is enclosed:
4.1.1 a copy certified as being in conformity with the original, of the contract.
4.1.2 an extract, certified as being a true extract, of the contract.
4.1.3 a certificate of transfer.
4.1.4 a transfer document.
4.2 The change is ownership results from a merger.
A copy, certified as being in conformity with the original, of the following document, evidencing the merger, is enclosed:
4.2.1 extract from the register of commerce.
4.2.2 other document originating from the competent authority.
4.3 The change in ownership does not result from a contractor a merger.
4.3.1 A copy, certified as being in conformity with the original, of a document evidencing the change is enclosed.
5. Holder(s) and/or Applicant(s)
5.1 If the holder and/or applicant is a natural person, the person's
(a) family or principal name:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="26">26
(b) given or secondary name (s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="26">26
5.2 If the holder and/or applicant is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
5.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with area code)
5.4 Check this box if there is more than one holder and/or applicant affected by the change; in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the date referred to in items 5.1 or 5.2 and 5.3.
5.5. Check this box if the holder and/or applicant, or one of the holders and/or applicants, has changed names and/or addresses without requesting the recordal of that changed, and enclose a document evidencing that the person having transferred the ownership and the holder and/or applicant are the same person.
6. Representative of the Holder and/or Applicant
6.1 Name:
6.2 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
number (s):
(with the area code) (with area code)
6.3 Serial number of the power of attorney *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="27">27
7. Address for Service of the Holder and/or Applicant
8. New Owner(s)
8.1 if the new owner is a natural person, the person's
(a) family or principal name:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="28">28
(b) given or secondary name (s):*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="28">28
8.2 If the new owner is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
8.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
number (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
8.4 State of nationality:
State of domicile:
State of etablishment:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="29">29
8.5 Where the new owner is a legal entity, indicate
- the legal nature of the legal entity:
- the State, and, where applicable, the territorial unit within that State,under the law of which the legal entity is organized.
8.6 Check this box if there is more than one new owner; in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the date referred to in items 8.1 or 8.2, 8.3., 8.4 and 8.5 *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="30">30
9. Representative of the New Owner
9.1. The new owner is not represented .
9.2. The new owner is represented.
9.2.1 Identification of the representative
9 2.1.1 Name:
9.2.1.2 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s): Telefacsimile
sumber (s):
(with the area code) (with the area code)
9.2.2 The power of attorney is already is the possession of the Office. Serial number :.................*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="31">31
9.2.3 The power of attorney is attached
9.2.4 The power of attorney will be furnished at a later date.
9.2.5 No power of attorney is needed.
10. Address for Service of the New Owner *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc"
TGPTNM="32">32
Form No 4, page 7
11. Signature of Seal
11.1 Name of the natural person who signs or whose seal is used:
11.2 Check the approriate box according to whether the signature is given, or the seal is used, by or on behalf of the
11.2.1 holder and/or applicant.
11.2.2 new owner.
11.2.3 representative.
11.3 Date of signature or of sealing:
11.4 Signature or seal:
12. Fee
12.1 Currency and amount of the fee paid in connection with the present request for the recordal of a change in ownership
12.2 Method of payment:
13. Additional Sheets and Attachments
Check this box if additional sheets and/or attachments are enclosed and indicate the total number of such sheets and/or attachments:
MODEL INTERNATIONAL FORM NO. 5
CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
in respect of registration(s) and/or application(s) for registration of marks
submitted to the Office of.......
For office use only
1. Certification
The undersigned transferor (s) and transferee (s) hereby certify that the ownership of the registration (s) and/or application (s) identified below has been transferred by contract.
2. Registration(s) and/or Application(s) Concerned
The present certificate concerns the transfer of the following registration (s) and/or application (s):
2.1 Registration number
(s):
2.2 Application number (s):*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="33">33
2.3 If the spaces under 2.1 or 2.2 are not sufficient, check this box and provide
the information on an additional sheet.
Form No. 5, page 2
3. Goods and/or services Affected by the Transfer
3.1 Check this box where all the goods and/or services listed in the application(s) and/or registration (s) referred to in item 2 have been affected by the transfer.
3.2 Check this box where item 2 mentions only one application or registration and where only some of the goods and/or services listed in that application or registration have been affected by the transfer and indicate the goods and/or services that have been affected by the transfer:
3.3 Check this box where item 2 mentions more than one application or registration and if in respect of at least one of them the transfer has affected less than all the goods and/or services listed. in this case, indicate on an additional sheet, separately in respect of each application and/or registration, weather the transfer affected all the goods and/or services or only some of them. In respect of any application or registration where only some of the goods and/or services were affected by the transfer, make the indication in the way specified in item 3.2.
Form No. 5, page 3
4. Trasferor(s)
4.1 If the transferor is a natural person, the person's
(a) family or principal
name:*REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="34">34
(b) given or secondary name (s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="34">34
4.2 If the transferor is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
4.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number (s): Telefacsimile
number (s):
(with area code) (with area code)
4.4 Check this box if there is more than one transferor: in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the data referred to in items 4.1 or 4.2 and 4.3.
5. Transferee(s)
5.1 If the transferee is
a natural person, the person's
(a) family or principal name: *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="35">35
(b) given or secondary name (s): *REFR DOCNM="97kp017.doc" TGPTNM="35">35
5.2 If the transferee is a legal entity, the entity's full official designation:
5.3 Address (including postal code and country):
Telephone number(s) :
(with the area code)
Telefacsimile number(s) :
(with the area code)
5.4 Check this box if there is more than one transferee; in that case, list them on an additional sheet and indicate, in respect of each of them, the data referred to in items 5.1 or 5.2 and 5.3.
Form No. 5, page 5
6. Signature or Seals
6.1 Signature(s) or suals(a) of the trasnferor(s)
6.1.1 Name(s) of the natural person(s) who sign(s) or whose seal(s) is (are) used:
6.1.2 Date of signature(a) or of sealing(a):
6.1.3 Signature(s) or seal(s):
6.2 Signature(s) or seal(s) of this transferee(s)
6.2