The law relating to trademarks

Definition of an EU trade mark and obtaining an EU trade mark
Article 4 - Signs of which an EU trade mark may consist
Article 5 - Persons who can be proprietors of EU trade marks
Article 6 - Means whereby an EU trade mark is obtained
Article 7 - Absolute grounds for refusal
Article 8 - Relative grounds for refusal

Effects of an EU trade mark
Article 9 - Rights conferred by an EU trade mark
Article 10 - Right to prohibit preparatory acts in relation to the use of packaging or other means
Article 11 - Date from which rights against third parties prevail
Article 12 - Reproduction of an EU trade mark in a dictionary
Article 13 - Prohibition of the use of an EU trade mark registered in the name of an agent or representative
Article 14 - Limitation of the effects of an EU trade mark
Article 15 - Exhaustion of the rights conferred by an EU trade mark
Article 16 - Intervening right of the proprietor of a later registered trade mark as a defence in infringement proceedings
Article 17 - Complementary application of national law relating to infringement

Use of an EU trade mark
Article 18 - Use of an EU trade mark

EU trade marks as objects of property
Article 19 - Dealing with EU trade marks as national trade marks
Article 20 - Transfer
Article 21 - Transfer of a trade mark registered in the name of an agent
Article 22 - Rights in rem
Article 23 - Levy of execution
Article 24 - Insolvency proceedings
Article 25 - Licensing
Article 26 - Procedure for entering licences and other rights in the Register
Article 27 - Effects vis-Ã -vis third parties
Article 28 - The application for an EU trade mark as an object of property
Article 29 - Procedure for cancelling or modifying the entry in the Register of licences and other rights