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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-earlier-trade-marks-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1067",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks (Earlier Trade Marks) Regulations 2008",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in SI 2004/946 and SI 2004/2332 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nTrade Marks\nMade 9th April 2008\nLaid before Parliament 14th April 2008\nComing into force 10th May 2008\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and unregistered rights), in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by that section, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/608."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
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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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