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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-trade-mark-regulations-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-trade-mark-regulations-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1908",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Trade Mark Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-trade-mark-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for the operation of the Community Trade Mark Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No. 40/94 of 20th December 1993 (O.J. No. L 11, 14.1.94, p.1)). In particular, these Regulations provide for the following:\n(a) the procedures for determining a posteriori the invalidity, or liability to revocation, of the registration of a trade mark from which a Community trade mark claims seniority;\n(b) the conversion of a Community trade mark, or an application for a Community trade mark, into an application for registration under the Trade Marks Act 1994;\n(c) the designation of courts in the United Kingdom having jurisdiction over proceedings arising out of the Community Trade Mark Regulation;\n(d) the application in relation to a Community trade mark of the provisions of the Trade Marks Act 1994 which deal with groundless threat of infringement proceedings, importation of infringing goods, material or articles and offences;\n(e) privilege for communications with persons on the list of professional representatives maintained in pursuance of Article 89 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation;\n(f) the application of the Trade Marks Rules 1994 (S.I. 1994/2583).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1908/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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