{"id":96080,"date":"2018-09-27T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=49d10efc83bd6ebab42f7ccb1f92fd04"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T09:00:05","slug":"news-story-trade-mark-directive-2015-new-guidance-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=96080","title":{"rendered":"News story: Trade Mark Directive 2015: new guidance published"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We published new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/implementation-of-the-trade-mark-directive-2015\">trade mark guidance<\/a> today. It will help businesses prepare for the implementation of the Trade Mark Directive 2015. The changes take effect on 14 January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This guidance summarises the important changes. It also explains how it will affect businesses applying for and managing a trade mark.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the important points relate to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>the ability to file a trade mark for a sound or motion as a MP3 or MP4 file<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>the removal of expired trade marks from search reports<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>changes to who can apply for a collective trade mark<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have questions about the guidance you may <a href=\"mailto:TMDirective@ipo.gov.uk\">contact TM Directive team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business guidance is available detailing new changes to trade mark law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}