{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-isle-of-man-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-isle-of-man-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2601",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks (Isle of Man) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-isle-of-man-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 3 (absolute grounds for refusal of registration) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2), after “the shape” in each place insert “, or another characteristic,”.\n(3) In subsection (4), for “or by any provision of Community law” substitute “other than law relating to trade marks”;\n(4) After subsection (4), insert—\n“(4A) A trade mark is not to be registered if its registration is prohibited by or under—\n(a) any enactment or rule of law, or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) any international agreement to which the United Kingdom ... is a party,\nproviding for the protection of designations of origin or geographical indications.\n(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4C) A trade mark is not to be registered if it—\n(a) consists of, or reproduces in its essential elements, an earlier plant variety denomination registered as mentioned in subsection (4D), and\n(b) is in respect of plant varieties of the same or closely related species.\n(4D) Subsection (4C)(a) refers to registration in accordance with any—\n(a) enactment or rule of law, or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) international agreement to which the United Kingdom ... is a party,\nproviding for the protection of plant variety rights.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 substituted (14.1.2019) by The Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1157), art. 1, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. para. 2(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(i)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(i)(bb); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(i)(cc); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. para. 2(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(iii)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(iii)(bb); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Registered Designs and Trade Marks (Isle of Man) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1335), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2(b)(iii)(cc); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2601/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:38:15.598860+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}