{"id":2937,"date":"2017-07-26T06:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T06:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2024-04-25T23:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:42:43","slug":"israeli-trademark-examination-changes-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/en\/israeli-trademark-examination-changes-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Trademark Examination Changes Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2937\" class=\"elementor elementor-2937\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cf2c310 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cf2c310\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-67420d87\" data-id=\"67420d87\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65fed8c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65fed8c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:right;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Originally published October 13th 2016<\/strong><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israeli Patent, Design and Trademark Office recently published a Circular for revamped TM (Trademark) examination guidelines and has published a draft for the public\u2019s comments.\u00a0 The draft has stirred quite a lively discussion (summary available upon request) and Teff &amp; Associates will attend a round-table on November 22nd, 2016, open to the public (prior signup required).\u00a0 The following account is a summary of the major points in the draft.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol><li><strong> Disclaiming Generic Components<br \/><\/strong>According to the Israeli Trademark Ordinance, the Commisioner is entitled to condition registration of a TM upon the Applicant filing a disclaimer to a component deemed to be generic.\u00a0 The new guidelines would remove the disclaimer filing onus but would allow the Commissioner to retroactively apply it to the registered TM.\u00a0 Filing a disclaimer would automatically be enacted when the TM was previously registered at an international office together with a disclaimer.<\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"2\"><li><strong> Listing Goods<br \/><\/strong>Applicant is responsible for ensuring that the goods listed in both Hebrew and English, as required, match.\u00a0 Statements of Applicant that the English version is to be considered as binding will not be accepted.\u00a0 An amended translation or transliteration (into Hebrew) of the listing will bear a fee after publication of the TM acceptance.<\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"3\"><li><strong> Trademarks Consisting of Characters<br \/><\/strong>The distinctiveness will be evaluated in regard of the particular goods for which the mark is requested.\u00a0 In general:<\/li><\/ol><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A plain mark consisting of a single letter or digit will be considered to have no inherent distinctiveness.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither will a combination of two digits (fancy or plain) that is routinely used in commercial use of the goods.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A plain combination of two letter, three digits or combinations of letters and digits may be considered as distinctive unless, again, commonly used in the trade, or representing a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"4\"><li><strong> Coloured Trademarks<br \/><\/strong>International TMs are automatically registered together with a description of the limiting colours.\u00a0 Non-black marks are examined with the filed colour considered as a component of the mark, even if no verbal description of the colour accompanies the filing.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"5\"><li><strong> Trademarks for Pharmaceuticals<br \/><\/strong>Registration follows the registration in the Israel Ministry of Health\u2019s registry, in particular registering the indications of therapeutic activity.\u00a0 A certificate of the registration in Israel Ministry of Health must be attached at filing.\u00a0 For a drug under development the relevant part of the application for registration in the Israel Ministry of Health\u2019s registry should be attached. <br \/><br \/>If the therapeutic activity is not established prior to applying for a TM, the following procedure will be followed: Acceptance of the TM will require adding the indications.\u00a0 Other dosages or treatments may subsequently be added by filing further applications Applicant may request to postpone the examination for up to 5 years from filing, for the purpose of establishing the therapeutic activity and dosages.<br \/><br \/>Registration of TM\u2019s for a pharmaceutical under the brand of the Applicant may be considered, even without indication of the intended therapeutic activity, if the Examiner is convinced that the Applicant commercializes a great variety of pharmaceuticals for which registration of TM is sought, and the brand is stamped on the product adjacent to the specific mark of the product.<br \/><br \/>Relevant parts of this section will be in effect from the date the Circular becomes effective, for pending TMs.<\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"6\"><li><strong>3D Trademarks<br \/><\/strong>A 3D image of a product or its packaging will not be registerable.\u00a0 However, otherwise, acceptance of the 3D TM will depend upon furnishing evidence of the following three: The mark does in practice serve as aTM; the mark does not serve an aesthetic or functional role, and the mark has acquired distinction through use. <br \/><br \/>Adding distinctive components to the 3D mark such as the brand name of the Applicant may suffice to acquit the Applicant from providing the evidence described above. <br \/><br \/>A statement will be added to the registration that the mark is 3D.<\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published October 13th 2016 The Israeli Patent, Design and Trademark Office recently published a Circular for revamped TM (Trademark) examination guidelines and has published a draft for the public\u2019s comments.\u00a0 The draft has stirred quite a lively discussion (summary available upon request) and Teff &amp; Associates will attend a round-table on November 22nd, 2016, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ip-ta.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}