Section 87 Privilege for communications with registered trade mark agents.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

This section applies toF1—

(a)

communications as to any matter relating to the protection of any design or trade mark, or as to any matter involving passing offF2, and

(b)

documents, material or information relating to any matter mentioned in paragraph (a).

F3(2)

Where a trade mark attorney acts for a client in relation to a matter mentioned in subsection (1), any communication, document, material or information to which this section applies is privileged from disclosure in like manner as if the trade mark attorney had at all material times been acting as the client's solicitor.

(3)

In subsection (2) “trade mark F4attorney” means—

(a)

a registered trade mark attorney, or

(b)

a partnership entitled to describe itself as a firm of registered trade mark F5attorneys, or

(c)

F6any other unincorporated body or a body corporate entitled to describe itself as a registered trade mark attorney F7or

F8(d)

a person whose name appears on the list of professional representatives for trade mark matters maintained by the European Union Intellectual Property Office referred to in Article 120 of the European Union Trade Mark Regulation.

F9(4)

Where a trade mark attorney is a person falling within subsection (3)(d), subsection (2) applies as if the reference to a matter mentioned in subsection (1) were a reference to a matter relating to the protection of a trade mark.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 87(1) renumbered as s. 87(1)(a) (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), s. 211(2), Sch. 21 para. 113(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h)
F2: S. 87(1)(b) and word inserted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), s. 211(2), Sch. 21 para. 113(b) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h)
F3: S. 87(2) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), s. 211(2), Sch. 21 para. 113(c) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h)
F4: Word in s. 87(3) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), s. 211(2), Sch. 21 para. 113(d)(i) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h)
F5: Word in s. 87(3) substituted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), s. 211(2), Sch. 21 para. 113(d)(ii) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h)
F6: Words in s. 87(3)(c) inserted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 184(6), 211(2) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(f)(i)
F7: Word in s. 87(3)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/269), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(2) (with Sch. 5 para. 7(1)(1A), 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1637, regs. 1(6), 3, S.I. 2020/1661, regs. 1(2)(b), 12, 16(2) and (26.11.2021) by S.I. 2021/1235, regs. 3, 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F8: S. 87(3)(d) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/269), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(3) (with Sch. 5 para. 7(1)(1A), 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1637, regs. 1(6), 3, S.I. 2020/1661, regs. 1(2)(b), 12, 16(2) and (26.11.2021) by S.I. 2021/1235, regs. 3, 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F9: S. 87(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/269), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 12(4) (with Sch. 5 para. 7(1)(1A), 8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1637, regs. 1(6), 3, S.I. 2020/1661, regs. 1(2)(b), 12, 16(2) and (26.11.2021) by S.I. 2021/1235, regs. 3, 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Modifications

C1: S. 87 applied (with modifications) (14.8.1996) by S.I. 1996/1908, reg. 5