8-5-6 Focus on ACCORD

1. A trade mark for goods or services which is registered the conditions contained in this Regulation and in the manner herein provided is hereinafter referred to as a ‘European Union trade mark (“EU trade mark”)’ .

2. Where the applicant requests registration for more than one class, the applicant shall group the goods and services the classes of the Nice Classification, each group being preceded by the number of the class to which that group of goods or services belongs, and shall present them in the order of the classes.

3. An EU trade mark application which has been a date of filing shall, in the Member States, be equivalent to a regular national filing, where appropriate with the priority claimed for the EU trade mark application.

4. An EU trade mark is to be regarded as an object of property which exists separately from the undertakings whose goods or services are designated by it. , it should be capable of being transferred, subject to the overriding need to prevent the public being misled as a result of the transfer. It should also be capable of being charged as security in favour of a third party and of being the subject matter of licences.