Europe: European trademark

In Brussels 26 countries have joined enhanced co-operation in order to obtain a single protection of inventions in European territory. It is expected that the new scheme will enter into force in 2017, enabling it to register a trademark in 26 European countries, including Italy, adopting a single administrative and therefore significant economic and time saving for companies.

This new scheme also provides a unified patent dispute resolution Court, which, however, requires the ratification of 13 countries, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the three states where the Court of Justice will be based.

If Paris has already given the go-ahead, there is still no finality in Berlin and, above all, London, which is still committed to doing so, by allowing Brexit by June 2017.

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