STOP PRESS: New Directive replaces 89/104
The IPKat has spotted with some surprise that Saturday's Official Journal of the European Union published Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (Codified version). This version replaces First Council Directive 89/104, coming into force twenty days following its publication, which would seem to give us 28 November 2008.
Fortunately, according to the appended Correlation Table virtually all the Articles of 89/104 retain their numbering in the new version. Any inconvenience experienced by the trade mark professions is nothing compared with what will happen when the Community Trade Mark Regulation is codified (see earlier posts here and here).
Fortunately, according to the appended Correlation Table virtually all the Articles of 89/104 retain their numbering in the new version. Any inconvenience experienced by the trade mark professions is nothing compared with what will happen when the Community Trade Mark Regulation is codified (see earlier posts here and here).