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Article 3 Entitlement to submit an application

United Kingdom

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The following persons and entities shall, to the extent they are entitled to initiate proceedings, in order to determine whether an intellectual property right has been infringed, in the F1United Kingdom, be entitled to submit F2an application:

  1. (1)

    F3right-holders;

  2. (2)

    intellectual property rights management collective bodies;

  3. (3)

    persons or entities authorised to use intellectual property rights, which have been authorised formally by the right-holder to initiate proceedings in order to determine whether the intellectual property right has been infringed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 3 substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(a)(i) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Art. 3 inserted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(a)(ii) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Art. 3(1)-(3) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 5(b) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)