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EUIPO accepts a notice of opposition against an EU trade mark application that is received by fax and/or post before the EU trade mark application has been published; thus before the commencement of the opposition period. The opposition will be kept on hold and be deemed to have been filed on the first day of the opposition period, namely the first day after the publication of the EU trade mark application in Part A1 of the EU trade mark Bulletin.
8.3. What happens if payment is not received in time?
Payments must reach EUIPO within the time limit specified for filing opposition, which is three months from publication of the EU trade mark application. However, provided that all the steps necessary for effecting payment are taken within this time limit, the EU trade mark regulation allows for payment to be considered as made, on the condition that the following requirement is met — where payment is made by bank transfer, the payment order must have been given within the aforementioned time limit. However, if the payment order was not made within the last ten days of the time limit specified, a surcharge of 10% will be payable.
8.4. Is there a guide on how to file notice of opposition?
The Office has published Guidelines concerning opposition proceedings, which attempt to explain in detail the practical application of the provisions of the EU trade mark Regulation.
8.5. In what language must the notice of opposition be filed?
The Opposition Division of EUIPO uses the five languages of the Office (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish). The notice of opposition may only be filed in one of these languages and the language must also coincide with one of the two languages chosen by the applicant for the European Union trade mark, as indicated upon publication of the application in the EU trade mark Bulletin. This language will then be used throughout the opposition proceedings.
If the notice of opposition is filed in one of the languages of the Office (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) that does not, however, coincide with the languages of the opposed EU trade mark application, the opponent is granted a time limit of one month in which to produce a translation into the appropriate language. This time limit, which is not subject to notification on the part of the Office, starts to run from the expiry of the deadline for filing an opposition.
8.6. What can be cited as justification for opposition?
A notice of opposition can be based on a trade mark application or on an earlier registered trade mark. The trade marks can be national trade marks from one of the Member States of the EU (national), international trade marks (registered under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol) or trade marks from the Benelux trade mark office. It is also possible to base opposition on well-known trade marks protected under Article 6bis of the Paris Convention
Answer:
The copyright law of the European Union consists of a number of directives, which the member states are obliged to enact into their national laws, as interpreted by the decisions of the European Court of Justice. Directives of the EU are passed to harmonise the laws of European Union member states. The most recent proposal is the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Copyright in the Union is furthermore dependent on international conventions to which the European Union is a member (such as the TRIPS Agreement and conventions to which all Member States are parties (such as the Berne Convention). The remaining issues are part of the national law of the member states
The following rights are protected by European Union law:
right of reproduction for authors, performers, producers of phonograms and films and broadcasting organisations
right of communication to the public for authors, performers, producers of phonograms and films and broadcasting organisations
right of distribution for authorsand for performers, producers of phonograms and films and broadcasting organisations
right of fixation for performers and broadcasting organisations
right of rental and/or lending for authors, performers, producers of phonograms and films, with an associated right of equitable remuneration for lending and/or rental for authors and performers
right of broadcasting for performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organisations
right of communication to the public by satellite and cable for authors, performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organisations
right of computer program reproduction, distribution and rental for authors
Moral rights are usually considered to be a matter for the national laws of the Member States, although some countries classify some of the above rights, especially the right of communication to the public, among the moral rights of the author rather than under his rights of exploitation.
Duration of protection
The rights of authors are protected within their lifetime and for seventy years after their death; this includes the resale rights of artists. For films and other audiovisual works, the seventy-year period applies from the last death among the following people, whether or not they are considered to be authors of the work by the national law of the Member State: the principal director (who is always considered to be an author of the audiovisual work), the author of the screenplay, the author of the dialogue and the composer of music specifically created for use in the cinematographic or audiovisual work.
The rights of performers last for 50 years from the distribution or communication of the performance, or for 50 years from the performance itself if it had never been communicated to the public during this period. The rights of phonogram producers last for 50 years after publication of the phonogram, or for 50 years after its communication to the public if it had never been published during that period, or for 50 years after its creation if it had never been communicated to the public.The rights of film producers last for 50 years after the communication of the film to the public, or for 50 years after its creation if it had never been communicated to the public during that period. The rights of broadcasting organisations last for 50 years after the first transmission of a broadcast. The European Commission proposed this be extended to 95 years and following this suggestion the European Parliament passed legislation to increase the term to 70 years.
Where a work enjoyed a longer period of protection under national law on 1 July 1995, its period of protection is not shortened. Otherwise, these terms of protection apply to all works which were protected in a Member State of the European Economic Area on 1 July 1995. This provision had the effect of restoring the copyrights in certain works which had entered the public domain in countries with shorter copyright terms. The EU Copyright Directive modified the term of protection of phonograms, calculating from the date of publication instead of from an earlier date of communication to the public, but did not restore the protection of phonograms which had entered the public domain under the former rules. All periods of protection run until 31 December of the year in which they expire.