As practitioners in the area of intellectual property rights (patents, industrial designs, trademarks and copyright), on the occasion of the release of the UK from the European Union to we would like to inform you that this act could affect the status of your rights. Individually for each right, as initial information we give these interpretations.
PATENTS: The European Unitary Patent (PMU) and European Unified Patent Court (EPC) will not take effect until 2017. European Patent Convention and the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich are not directly related to the European Union, which means that your acquired rights and existing British and European patents will not be affected. The procedure for patent protection will be implemented, acquired and maintained in the same way as they did before.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND TRADEMARKS: European industrial designs and trademarks were protected in the European Union that were granted through the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, and which were covered the UK may expire after negotiations about exit of the country from the EU (guess is somewhere 2018/19). Currently there is no entirely clear legal solution, but we should keep in mind and be careful of “free riders” (Tiefs) that may try to harm or steal your trademark. In order to be sure of such abuses please consult us for each Trademark individually. Our experts will give you adequate, relevant and optimal solution that can be offered at this time.
COPYRIGHT: Under the Berne Convention, copyright is protected by the very occurrence of the territory of the whole world (territory of States Parties to the Convention), so a direct impact on BREGZIT not protrude at this point. Agency IS “Berin” and calls on the disposal of the rights that are important to you, thus providing evidence of the priority of your work