Examples of Office of the country of origin in a sentence
The International Bureau shall, as soon as possible, notify the Office of the country of origin of any declaration made under the terms of paragraph (3) by the Office of another country.
Therefore, the designated Contracting Parties could and did rely on the Office of the country of origin to certify that any limitation was actually a limitation.
Under that proposal, there would have been no requirement of a prior national registration, but the international application would have had to be filed with the Office of the country of origin, which would have made a limited examination based on grounds to be set forth in the Agreement.
Article 3 of the Madrid Agreement used the phrase “the Office of the country of origin of the mark shall certify that the particulars appearing in such application “correspond to” the particulars in the National Register”.
The examples given in the proposal of grounds on which the international application could be refused by the Office of the country of origin were similar to those given in the paper by the International Bureau, namely: lack of entitlement to file an international application; subject matter of the international application obviously not a mark; mark contrary to Article 6 ter of the Paris Convention; mark contrary to public order or morality.
The international application shall be filed with the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office as Office of the country of origin in compliance with the formal requirements, in the manner and in the language prescribed by the Agreement.
Yet, it is worth noting that in the course of the discussions that led to its adoption, it was suggested that while the requirement of a prior national filing might be abandoned, the international application should still be required to be filed with the Office of the country of origin, which would make a limited examination based on grounds to be set out in the treaty14.
The proposal specified that the decisions of the Office of the country of origin would have been subject to the same legal remedies as those applicable to national applications under the national law of that country.
Such a declaration must be addressed to the International Bureau, together with an indication of the grounds therefor, which will notify the declaration to the Office of the country of origin and indicate it in the International Register.
The international application must be filed through the Office of the country of origin (as defined in Article 1(3) of the Agreement) or the Office of origin (referred to in Article 2(2) of the Protocol as “the Office with which the basic application was filed or by which the basic registration was made”).