The Trade Marks (International Registration) (Fees) Rules 1996

Made: 11th March 1996

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 1996

Coming into force: 1st April 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 53, 54 and 79 of the Trade Marks Act 1994[^f00001], of the power conferred on him by the Department of Trade and Industry (Fees) Order 1988[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules—

1

These Rules may be cited as the Trade Marks (International Registration) (Fees) Rules 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

2

These Rules shall be construed as one with the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996[^f00003].

3

The fees to be paid in respect of any matter arising under the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996 shall be those specified in the Schedule to these Rules; and in any case where a form specified in the Schedule as the corresponding form in relation to any matter is specified in the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996 that form shall be accompanied by the fee specified in respect of that matter.

SCHEDULE — FEES PAYABLE

(In this Schedule, references to an article are references to that article in the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996)

Signed

Ian Taylor — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science and Technology, — Department of Trade and Industry — 11th March 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules prescribe the fees payable for matters arising under the Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996 which implements the Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Trade Marks (“the Madrid Protocol”) (Cm 1601 Miscellaneous Series No. 14 (1991). In particular, these Rules make provision for the following—

• (a) a handling fee for submission of an application for international registration originating in the United Kingdom;

• (b) handling fees for the transmission by the Patent Office of monies payable to the International Bureau for the renewal of an international registration;

• (c) a fee for a transformation application;

• (d) a fee for the recordal of a concurrent registration;

• (e) fees in relation to the supplementary register maintained by the registrar for the purpose of recording certain transactions in relation to international trade marks (UK);

• (f) fees for the revocation or invalidation of a protected international trade mark (UK);

• (g) forms that are required by the registrar for the payment of the prescribed fees.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1994 c. 26.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/93 which was made under section 102 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51). The relevant provisions of that Order are article 5 and Part II of Schedule 1; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1990/1473.