Article 186
Notification of the invalidity
of the basic application or registration
- Within a period of five years of the date of the international registration, the Office shall
notify the International Bureau of any facts and decisions affecting the validity of
the EU trade mark application or the EU trade mark registration on which the international
registration was based.
- The Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying the individual facts and
decisions subject to the notification obligation in accordance with Article 6(3) of the
Madrid Protocol as well as the relevant point in time of such notifications. Those
implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred
to in Article 207(2) of this Regulation.