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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-amendment-rules-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3832",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-amendment-rules-2001",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Trade Marks Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/136), made under the Trade Marks Act 1994, by the amendment of Rules 7, 8 and 46, the revocation of Schedule 2 to those Rules and the addition of Schedule 4.\nRule 7 is amended to reflect the reclassification which has taken place of trade mark registrations dated before 27th July 1938, and to allow for classification under the Eighth Edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services (made under the Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15th June 1957) on or after 1st January 2002. (The Eighth Edition changes the headings of classes 4, 5, 9, 16, 29 and 42 and creates new classes, 43, 44 and 45.)\nRule 8 is amended to reflect the amended rule 7 to allow applications made before 1st January 2002 to proceed under Schedule 3 and applications made on or after 1st January 2002 to proceed under the new Schedule 4.\nRule 46(1) is amended to reflect the amended rule 7 and update the powers of reclassification of the registrar.\nSchedule 2, which set out the classification system in force before 27th July 1938, is revoked.\nA new Schedule 4 sets out the latest version of the classes of the International Classification of Goods and Services.\nA regulatory impact assessment is available, copies of which have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies of the assessment are also available from the Trade Marks Directorate of the Patent Office, Room 2.057, Concept House, Cardiff Road, Newport, South Wales, NP10 8QQ.\nThe Eighth Edition of the International Classification may be ordered from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), 34, chemin des Colombettes, P.O. Box 18, CH—1211 Geneva 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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