Legal Sources > Trademark

Trademarks

Hungarian laws and regulations
Treaties and Conventions
Community laws and regulations

Hungarian laws and regulations

Act XI of 1997 on the Protection of Trademarks and Geographical Indications
(as in force today)

Government Decree No. 147/2007. (VI. 26.) on the detailed rules concerning electronic filing of certain documents in industrial property procedures (Hungarian only)

Decree No. 16/2004. (IV.27.) IM on the detailed formalities of trademark applications and applications for the protection of geographical indications (Hungarian only)

Decree No. 19/2005 (IV. 12.) GKM on the Fees for Administrative Services in Industrial Property Procedures before the Hungarian Patent Office

Act CII of 2003 amending industrial property and copyright legislation
Hungarian only

Treaties and Conventions

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
(Promulgated by the Law Decree 18/1970 - Hungarian only)

Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
(Promulgated by the Law Decree 29/1973 - Hungarian only)

Protocol of 1989 Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
(Promulgated by the Act LXXXIII of 1999 - Hungarian only)

Common Regulations under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and the Protocol Relating to that Agreement
(Promulgated by the Decree 4/2005. (III. 11.) IM - The decree includes both the authorized Hungarian translation and the original English text of the Agreement.)

Agreement on Trademark (WIPO)
(Promulgated by the Act LXXXIII of 1999 - Hungarian only)

Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
(Promulgated by the Law Decree 18/1970 - Hungarian only)

Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks

Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol
(Promulgated by the Act LX of 2008 - Hungarian only)

Community laws and regulations

Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property right

Directive 2008/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)

Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 of 26 February 2009 on the Community trade mark (codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)

Commission regulation (EC) 2868/95 of 13 December 1995 implementing Council Regulation (EC) 40/94 on the Community trade mark

Commission Regulation (EC) 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market

Commission Regulation (EC) No 355/2009 of 31 March 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 2869/95 on the fees payable to the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) and Regulation (EC) No 2868/95 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark

Commission Regulation (EC) 216/96 of 5 February 1996 laying down the rules of procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market