Subject matter
Article 1
This Regulation lays down rules specifying: (a) the details to be contained in an application for an EU trade mark to be filed at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (‘the Office’); (b) the documentation required to claim the priority of a previous application and to claim seniority, and the evidence to be filed to claim an exhibition priority; (c) the details to be contained in the publication of an application for an EU trade mark; (d) the content of a declaration of division of an application, how the Office has to process such a declaration, and the details to be contained in the publication of the divisional application; (e) the content and form of the certificate of registration; (f) the content of a declaration of division of a registration and how the Office has to process such a declaration; (g) the details to be contained in requests for alteration and for the change of name or address; (h) the content of an application for registration of a transfer, the documentation required to establish a transfer, and how to process applications for partial transfers; (i) the details to be contained in a declaration of surrender and the required documentation to establish a third party's agreement; (j) the details to be contained in the regulations governing use of an EU collective mark and those governing use of an EU certification mark; (k) the maximum rates for costs essential to proceedings and actually incurred; (l) certain details concerning publications in the European Union Trade Marks Bulletin and the Official Journal of the Office; (m) the detailed arrangements as to how the Office and the authorities of the Member States are to exchange information between each other and open files for inspection; (n) the details to be contained in requests for conversion and in the publication of a request for conversion; (o) the extent to which supporting documents to be used in written proceedings before the Office may be filed in any official language of the Union, the need to supply a translation and the requisite standards of translations; (p) the decisions to be taken by single members of the Opposition and Cancellation Divisions; (q) concerning the international registration of marks: (i) the form to be used for the filing of an international application; (ii) the facts and decisions of invalidity to be notified to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (‘the International Bureau’) and the relevant time of such notification; (iii) the detailed requirements regarding requests for territorial extension subsequent to international registration; (iv) the details to be contained in a seniority claim for an international registration and the details of the information to be notified to the International Bureau; (v) the details to be contained in the notification of ex officio provisional refusal of protection to be sent to the International Bureau; (vi) the details to be contained in the final grant or refusal of protection; (vii) the details to be contained in the notification of invalidation; (viii) the details to be contained in the requests for conversion of an international registration and in the publication of such requests; (ix) the details to be contained in an application for transformation.