WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE
ORGANIZACIÓN MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIOIP/N/1/LVA/T/1
24 June 1999
(99-2612)
Council for Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property RightsOriginal:  English/
anglais/
inglés
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS AND REGULATIONS
NOTIFIED UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT
LATVIA
The present document reproduces the text1 of the Law on Trademarks, as notified by Latvia
under Article 63.2 of the Agreement (see document IP/N/1/LVA/1).
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriété
intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET RÉGLEMENTATIONS CONSACRÉES
À LA PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE NOTIFIÉES
AU TITRE DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD
LETTONIE
Le présent document contient le texte1 de la Loi sur les marques de fabrique ou de commerce,
notifiée par la Lettonie au titre de l'article 63:2  de l'Accord (voir le document IP/N/1/LVA/1).
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio
PRINCIPALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NOTIFICADOS EN VIRTUD
DEL PÁRRAFO 2 DEL ARTÍCULO 63 DEL ACUERDO
LETONIA
En el presente documento se reproduce el texto1 de la Ley de Marcas, notificada por Letonia
en virtud del párrafo 2 del artículo 63 del Acuerdo (véase el documento IP/N/1/LVA/1).
                                                     
1 In English only/En anglais seulement/En inglés solamente.IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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REPUBLIC OF LATVIA
LAW
ON TRADEMARKS
Chapter One
General Provisions
Article 1. A trademark and service mark
(1)A trademark and service mark (hereinafter referred to as a trademark or mark) is a sign used to
distinguish the goods and services of one enterprise from the goods and services (hereinafter referred
to as goods) of another enterprise.
(2)A collective trademark is a trademark registered by an industrial or commercial cooperation, or
an association or the like organization of several enterprises, and which is used in order to designatethe goods and services of this association. Each enterprise of association may also simultaneously
have its own trademarks. Particular provisions on collective trademarks are prescribed in specific
articles of this Law, but in other cases, the provisions prescribed to trademarks also apply to collective
trademarks.
(3)Trademarks may be:
1) words: consisting of letters, words, the first names or surnames of persons, numbers;
2) graphic: pictures, drawings, graphic symbols, combinations or arrangements of colors;
3) three-dimensional: three-dimensional shapes, the shapes of goods or their packaging; or
4) a combination: consisting of a combination of the above mentioned elements, such as labels and
the like.
(4)Specific types of trademarks, such as sound and light signals or other signs may be registered, if
they can be graphically represented.
Article 2. Non-registrable marks
(1)The following marks shall not be registered as trademarks:
1) marks which are not distinctive (which lack qualities to distinguish them from other marks) or
which are of a descriptive nature;
2) coats of arms, flags, names and abbreviations of countries, other official symbols of countries,
names of international organizations, their abbreviations and emblems, religious symbols;
3) official hallmarks (indications of standards), seals, guarantees, test or quality marks and marks
indicating the safety of utilizing goods which are usually used or prescribed for use in the Republic
of Latvia;
4) insignia and national decorations which are used in the Republic of Latvia;
5) signs used to identify, describe or name certain goods, as well as units of measure, conventional
terms and symbols;
6) signs which only designate the place or time of manufacture or sale of goods and their quality,
intended purpose, value, price, type or amount;
7) signs which are false or may mislead the public;
8) marks contrary to ethics, humanism or morality;
9) marks which reproduce names of firms, as well as names or signs of products well-known in the
Republic of Latvia and belonging to other persons;
10)marks which reproduce trademarks belonging to other persons and well-known in the Republic of
Latvia, even if the trademarks are not registered in the Republic of Latvia, or marks which are so
similar to the trademarks, above, that there exists a likelihood of confusion thereof;
11)signs protected by copyright if not authorized by the owner thereof;
12)surnames, portraits, pseudonyms and facsimiles of persons well-known by the general public if not
authorized by the owners thereof or their successors in title, except in cases when the above
mentioned persons have died more than 50 years ago;IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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13)marks which reproduce marks belonging to other persons and registered by or applied for
registration at the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia (hereinafter referred to as the Patent
Office) in relation to the same or similar goods, or  marks which are so similar to the marks, above,
that there exists a likelihood of confusion thereof;
14)marks which reproduce other marks which belong to other persons and which, though applied later
for registration for the same or similar goods, are accorded earlier priority or marks which are so
similar to the marks, above, that there exists a likelihood of confusion thereof;
15)marks which resemble or are identical to the names of firms which belong to other persons
involved in an analogous business in the Republic of Latvia;
16)industrial designs which are protected by the law on the protection of industrial designs and which
belong to other persons;
17)annulled trademarks, unless three years have passed since the date of annulment, except in cases
when the former trademark owner applies for renewal of the registration of the mark; this
provision shall not apply to a person who claimed annulment of the mark on the grounds of non-
use of the mark pursuant to Article 21, Paragraph 3 of this Law; and
18)the functional shape of the goods or their packaging which is determined by the nature of the
goods or which is necessary to obtain a particular technical effect.
(2)The signs referred to in  Paragraph 1, subsections 2-6 of this Article, as well as geographical
names may be included in a mark as unprotected elements of the mark, furthermore, the elements
referred to in subsections 2, 3 and 4 may only be included in a mark with written authorization from
the owner or from the organization entitled to give such authorization. Any sign which can be
considered as a geographical indication, may only be included in a mark with the stipulation that itwill not mislead the public and that its use does not contradict the law and local legal acts.
(3)The use of a trademark before its registration shall not be considered a reason to reject its
registration in the name of the person who has used the mark.
(4)If, before applying for registration, a trademark has been used in relation to goods for no less
than five years and is known by the consumer fo r whom it was intended, the registration of the mark
shall not be rejected on the grounds of Paragraph 1, subsection 1 of this Article.
Article 3. Rights to a trademark and the subjects of rights to a trademark
(1)Exclusive rights to trademarks in the Republic of Latvia may be acquired by any natural person
or legal entity (hereinafter referred to as a person) who has registered a mark, or his successor in title
or heir.
(2)Rights to a trademark, including exclusive rights in relation to other persons, shall be effective to
the full extent thereof from the date the announcement of the registration of the mark is published.
(3)The trademark owner in whose name the mark is registered shall have exclusive rights to use the
mark, to transfer  these rights to a third party, as well as to prohibit the use of the mark and similar
marks in relation with goods in respect of which the mark is registered and in relation to similar
goods, if the use of this mark could possibly be misleading.
(4)The trademark owner shall not be entitled to prohibit another person to use, in good faith, in his
entrepreneurial activities his own name, surname, address, the name and address of his enterprise, aswell as information on his goods or services as far as these data do not mislead the public on the
origin of the goods or services.
(5)Exclusive rights shall not apply to the elements of the trademark which individually, in
accordance with Article 2 of this Law, cannot be registered as trademarks. If the trademark  includes
such elements and a possibility exists that the registration of trademark will cause doubt as the extentof rights, then, when registering the mark, the Patent Office may exclude these elements from
protection with a special notification.
(6)Each person may own one or more trademarks.
(7)Exclusive rights on a trademark shall be certified with a registration certificate issued by the
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(8)A fee must be paid for the filing of an application and for the registration of a trademark, as well
as for other legally significant acts. The types and amounts of fees shall be determined by the Council
of Ministers.
Chapter Two
Trademark Registration
Article 4. Filing of an application
(1)A person who wishes to obtain exclusive rights to a trademark in the Republic of Latvia, shall
file an application for the registration of  the trademark with the Patent Office, in writing.
(2)As the date of filing of the application shall be considered the date when the Patent Office
receives documents which include:1) the request to register a trademark;
2) data which permit the unmistakable identification of the applicant;
3) the sign applied for registration (its representation); and
4) the list of goods in relation to which the mark is to be registered.
(3)The Patent Office shall determine the cases in which the application shall include a description
of the sign to be registered.
(4)Each application may pertain only to one trademark.
(5)The application may include one or more classes of goods in accordance with the International
Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks. The listing shall
include goods grouped under the applicable classes of International Classification.
(6)The request of the application shall be in Latvian while other application materials may also be
submitted in English, French, Russian or German. The Patent Office is entitled to request a translationof the submitted materials and documents into Latvian; these translations shall be submitted to the
Patent Office within a set term. All further processing of the application (correspondence) shall be in
Latvian.
(7)The application shall include documents which certify that the application fee has been paid.
(8)If the application is being filed through a representative, a document certifying the
representative‘s authorization must be attached.
(9)A foreign applicant may only file an application and maintain correspondence with the Patent
Office through a patent attorney (trademark agent) who has been registered in the Patent Office.
(10) When applying a collective trademark, one shall submit Regulations on the use of a collective
trademark which have been confirmed by the executive authority of the collective trademark or aperson authorized by the executive authority. The Regulations shall indicate the trademark users, the
provisions for the use of the trademark and information on the control of the use of the mark. The
collective trademark owner shall notify the Patent Office of all amendments which are made later in
the Regulations.
(11) The application shall include the materials and documents mentioned in this Article and, if
necessary, those in Article 5, as well as those determined by the Patent Office. Formal requirements
concerning application materials and documents shall be determined by the Patent Office. The request
of the application shall be signed by the applicant or his representative.
Article 5. Priority of a trademark
(1)The priority of a trademark shall be determined from the date when the Patent Office has
received the application which conforms with the requirements of Article 4, Paragraph 2 of this Law.
(2)If two or more applications for the registration of identical or similar trademarks are filed in
respect of the same or similar goods, the trademark with the earliest priority shall be registered.
(3)The application may include a claim to priority based on one or several earlier applications on
the same mark which have been filed by the applicant or his predecessor in title in a country party to
the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, or in any other country with which theIP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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Republic of Latvia has concluded an agreement on the recognition of priority rights, however, with
the stipulation that the aforementioned application shall be filed with the Patent Office within six
months from the date of filing of the first application(s).
(4)The application may claim a priority based on the display of the trademark in relation to the
same goods exhibited at an official or officially recognized international exhibition in a country partyto the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, however, with the stipulation that the
application shall be filed with the Patent Office within six months from the first day of exhibiting the
mark.
(5)Documents verifying the applicant‘s rights to priority are to be submitted together with the
application or may be attached to the application no later than three months after the filing date of the
application.
Article 6. Preliminary examination of the application
(1)Within two months after receipt of the application, the Patent Office shall conduct a preliminary
examination of the application, examine the confor mity of the application with the requirements of
Article 4 of this Law and, in accordance with the set procedure, establish the filing date of the
application and, if the applicant has the right to priority, the filing date of priority.
(2)If the application does not conform or only partially conforms to the prescribed requirements, the
Patent Office shall notify the applicant, specify the non-conformity and determine a term for a reply.If the reply is not received in due time, or essential deficiencies are not eliminated, the application
shall be considered as not filed and the applicant shall be notified of this, in writing.
(3)Within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the rejection, the applicant has the
right, upon payment of fee, to submit a substantiated appeal to the Board of Appeal of the Patent
Office (hereinafter referred to as the Board of Appeal).
(4)If the application conforms to the requirements of Article 4 of this Law, the Patent Office shall
send a written notice to the applicant on the acceptance of the application for examination (the
acceptance of the application).
(5)Until the day when the Patent Office adopts a decision on the acceptance of the application, the
applicant shall have a right, on his own initiative and upon paying the prescribed fee, to make
amendments in the application, to expand the list of goods within the limits of the initially stated
classes and to make other changes without essentially changing the trademark itself.
(6)The applicant has the right to withdraw the a pplication or to eliminate goods from the submitted
list of goods at any time during the processing of the application, however, the fees already paid are
not returned.
Article 7. Examination of trademark
(1)The Patent Office shall examine the conformity of the accepted application the requirements of
Article 1, Article 2, Paragraph 1 subsections 1-10 and 18 and Article 2, Paragraph 2 of this Law.
(2)In the course of examination, the Patent Office is entitled to request from the applicant additional
materials and documents necessary for examination, thereby indicating the term for their submission.
(3)Within a period of three months after the application has been accepted for examination, the
Patent Office, in accordance with the results of the examination, shall adopt a decision to register the
trademark or to reject the registration thereof. The ap plicant shall be notified of the decision in writing
and if the decision is positive, shall be invited to pay a fee for the registration and publication of the
mark. The above mentioned time period shall not be adhered to if additional materials have beenrequested during the examination or if the applicant has requested that the period be extended in order
to submit these materials.
(4)Within a period of two months after the date of receipt of the registration rejection, the applicant
shall have the right, upon paying the prescribed fee, to file a substantiated appeal with the Board of
Appeal.IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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Article 8. Registration and publication of trademark and issuance of certificate
If the applicant has paid the fee, as soon as possible after the adoption of a favorable decision
resulting from the examination, the Patent Office sha ll register the trademark in the State Register of
Trademarks and publish the mark in the official bulletin of Patent Office, as well as issue an
established form of a certificate of the registration of the trademark to the applicant.
Article 9. State Register of Trademarks
(1)The Patent Office shall maintain the State Register of Trademarks (hereinafter referred to as the
Register) which shall comprise the registered trademark (its representation), data on the trademark
owner (for collective marks, data on persons entitled to  use the mark), filing date (priority date) of the
application, the date of the registration of the mark, the list of goods to which the registration of the
mark applies and other information determined by the Patent Office.
(2)The trademark owner shall immediately notify the Patent Office of any changes concerning the
registration of the trademark and, in particular, of changes in the owner‘s name, surname (name of the
enterprise), the limitation of goods in the submitted list or of changes within the list of the initial
classes of goods, as well as of a wish to change separate elements in the mark itself. The changes must
not affect the essence of the mark. The Patent Office shall record the permissible changes in theRegister, write them in the certificate of registration and publish them in the official bulletin.
(3)The Register is accessible for inspection by any person. For a specific fee, the Patent Office shall
provide copies of entries in the Register.
Article 10. Opposition to trademark registration
(1) Within three months from the date of the publication of the trademark, any person may, upon
paying fee, submit a substantiated opposition to the registration of a trademark, if the provisions of
Articles 1 and 2 of this Law have not been observed. The opposition in written form shall be filed
with the Board of Appeal.
(2)The Board of Appeal shall inform the applicant of the opposition and determine a period for
submitting a reply.
(3)In accordance with the results of reviewing the opposition, the Board of Appeal shall adopt a
decision on the full or partial satisfaction of the opposition or on its rejection.
(4)Rejection of the opposition does not prohibit the opponent from contesting the registered
trademark in accordance with general procedures.
Article 11. Examination of appeals and oppositions
(1)The appeals submitted in accordance with the provisions of Article 6, Paragraph 3 and Article 7,
Paragraph 4 of this Law and the oppositions filed in accordance with Article 10, Paragraph 1 shall be
examined by the Board of Appeal.
(2)Appeals shall be reviewed within three mont hs from the date of their receipt and oppositions
shall be reviewed within three months from the date of receipt of the applicant‘s reply.
(3)The appellant or his authorized representative sh all be invited to take part in the proceedings of
the Board of Appeal. Where oppositions are examined, both interested parties shall have the right to
participate in the proceedings, to submit necessary materials and to provide oral explanations. A
decision shall be made in the absence of the inte rested parties and they shall be notified of the
decision within one month, in writing.
(4)The decision of the Board of Appeal on the conformity of the application with the requirements
of Article 4 of this Law, shall be final. The applicant may, within six months from the date of the
decision, appeal against other decisions of th e Board of Appeal the Regional Court of Riga.
Article 12. Duration and renewal of the registration
(1)The registration of a trademark shall be for a period of 10 years the date of filing of the
application with the Patent Office.IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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(2)The registration may, on expiration of 10 years, be renewed for another 10 year period. The mark
owner shall, after paying the corresponding fee, submit a request for renewal of registration in the last
year of the trademark registration. If the registration is not renewed in due time, the Patent Office
shall, upon the owner's request and the payment of an extra fee, allocate an additional six month
period for the renewal of the registration.
(3)Information on the renewal of the registration shall be entered into the Register and on the
registration certificate. This information shall be published in the official bulletin.
Article 13. Issuance of a duplicate of the registration certificate
Upon the request of the mark owner and if the co rresponding fee has been paid, the Patent Office
may issue a duplicate of the trademark registration certificate.
Article 14. Extension and renewal of the set terms
(1)The Patent Office may extend the terms anticipated in Article 6, Paragraphs 2 and 3, Article 7,
Paragraphs 2-4 and Article 10, Paragraph 2 of this Law, provided that the request for the extension
has been received by the Patent Office before the expiry of the corresponding term and the fee forterm extension has been paid.
(2)The Patent Office may; in case of due cause, renew the terms anticipated in Article 6, Paragraphs
2 and 3, Article 7, Paragraphs 2-4 and Article 10, Paragraph 2 of this Law, provided that the reasoned
request for renewal has been received by the Patent Office no later than two months after the expiry
of the corresponding term, and an additional fee has been paid for the renewal of the term.
Chapter Three
Use of a Trademark
Article 15. Use of a trademark
(1)As the use of a trademark shall be considered the use of a registered trademark on goods and
their packaging, on any documentation accompanying the goods and in advertisements, in relation tothe names of firms and geographical indications or in relation to any other form of business activities
conducted by the mark owner, his representative or licensee.
(2)As the nominal use of a trademark may be considered the use thereof in advertisements, printed
publications, as well as on signboards and in exhibitions.
Article 16. Rights of prior use
A person who, in good faith, has been using an unregistered   trademark in relation to goods no less
than one year prior to the date when another person has applied to the Patent Office for the
registration of an identical or similar trademark in relation to the same or similar goods shall, for oneyear from the date the mark is registered, retain the right to use that trademark.
Article 17. Warning sign
(1)The trademark owner has the right to place a sign of an encircled  letter  "R"  or wording which
warns of the mark registration, such as: "Trademark registered in the Republic of Latvia", next to the
registered trademark.
(2)The trademark owner must not mislead the public by placing a warning sign of a registered mark
by a mark which is not registered in or outside of Latvia.
Article 18. Transfer of rights to a trademark or to its use
(1)The trademark owner shall have the right to transfer his trademark to another person in relation
to one, several or all the goods for which the mark is registered. Collective trademarks shall never be
transferred to other persons.IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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(2)Within a license contract, the trademark owner (licensor) has the right to grant to another person
(licensee) his rights to use the trademark in relation to one, several or all the goods which the mark is
registered.
(3)The trademark license contract must include the provision that the quality of the licensee‘s goods
shall not be lower than that of the licensor‘s goods and that the latter shall control the implementation
of this provision.
(4)The transfer of the right to the trademark or th e right to its use with a license contract shall not
mislead the public in regard to the goods, their quality or the manufacturer.
(5)The transfer of the trademark or the license contract shall take effect on the date when it is
registered by the Patent Office. The Patent Office shall publish information on this registration in its
official bulletin. The Patent Office shall not register a contract if it does not comply with the
requirements of Paragraphs 3 or 4 of this Article. Fees shall be paid for registration and publication.
Article 19. Illegal use of a trademark
(1)As the illegal use of trademark shall be considered the use of a registered trademark (or a sign
resembling the registered trademark so that there exists a likelihood of confusion with the actual
trademark) on goods or in direct relation to the goods, on the packaging of goods, on any
documentation accompanying the goods or in advertisements, in the names of firms or in the
indications of the origin of goods, or in other business activities without the consent of the trademarkowner, provided that the trademark is used in resp ect to the goods for which the mark is registered or
to similar goods.
(2)As the illegal use of a trademark shall also be considered the manufacture, import (except in
transit), export, storage, sale, offer for sale or use of goods, or their packaging with a registered
trademark without permission from the trademark owne r or owner of rights to use the trademark, if
the above mentioned acts are associated with goods in relation to which the mark is registered.
(3)As the illegal use of a trademark well-known and registered in the Republic of Latvia shall be
considered the use of a mark in business and, in particular, in relation to goods for which it has not
been registered, if this use causes losses to the mark owner or brings profit to the user.
(4)If a product marked with a registered trademar k, with the permission of the trademark owner or
the owner of the rights to use the trademark, or in any other way, has legally entered economic
circulation, the trademark owner and the owner of the rights to use the mark shall not have a right to
prohibit the further use of the product.
(5)Entrepreneurs who sell another entrepreneur‘s  product which is marked with the trademark of
the latter or utilize such a product as a component in their own production, shall also be allowed to
mark this product or its component with their own trademark only with th e consent of the first
trademark owner. This provision shall not apply to the marking of such a product which includes the
above mentioned component.
Article 20. Responsibility for the illegal use of a trademark
(1)A person who is illegally using a trademark, i.e. is implementing the rights referred to in Article
3 of this Law without consent from the person who possesses, on the grounds of the provisions of
Article 3 or 18 of this Law, the exclusive rights to use the mark, must compensate for losses caused by
the illegal use of the mark.
(2)Upon request from the interested party, the court may require that the illegal marking be changed
or, if impossible, to destroy the goods with such markings, or to give the goods at their cost to thetrademark owner, if agreed, or to submit the goods for use in charitable purposes.
(3)A person who will illegally use a trademark, after the trademark owner or the owner of rights to
use the trademark has requested that he terminate the illegal use of the trademark, shall be punishable
by law.
(4)A person may be released from paying a fine if the person proves that he has not and could not
have known about the other person‘s rights to use the trademark, however, this does not release the
former from compensating for losses. The generally recognized term for submitting claims shall beginIP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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from the moment when the mark owner or his successor in title has discovered or should have
discovered the infringement of his rights.
Chapter Four
Termination of Trademark Duration. International Agreements
Article 21. Nullification of trademark registration
(1)The registration of a trademark shall be nullified, if:
1) the trademark owner requests the Patent Office that the trademark be surrendered. The Patent
Office shall delete the trademark from the Register from the day specified by the owner within the
term of registration of the trademark;
2) the term of registration of the trademark has expired and it has not been renewed (the mark has not
been re-registered). The Patent Office shall nullify the mark six months after the expiry of the term
of registration of the trademark;
3) the trademark has not been used during the past five years for marking the goods for which it was
registered. The trademark shall be nullified beginning with the day when five years have passed
after the last day of the marking of a product;
4) the trademark has been registered contrary to the requirements of Articles 1 and 2 of this Law. The
mark shall be nullified from the date of registration either in its entirety or in that part which is not
in compliance with law; or
5) the Regulations on collective trademark use are not observed.
(2)A request to nullify the registration of a trademark on the grounds of this Article, Paragraph 1,
subsections 3-5 may be submitted to the Regional Court of Riga by any interested party. The Court
shall inform the Patent Office of its decision within one month from date the decision is adopted.
(3)The registration of a trademark shall be nullified on the grounds of this Article, Paragraph 1,
subsection 3 in respect to goods for which the mark has been registered but has not been used in
relation to these goods for the last five years, except in cases, where the non-use has been legally
justified or the trademarks has been nominally used. The registration of a mark is completely nullified
if the mark has not been used on any of the goods for which it has been registered.
(4)A request to nullify the registration of a trademark on the grounds of this Article, Paragraph 1,
subsections 3 or 5 may be submitted at any time during the term of registration of the trademark.
(5)Trademarks which have been registered contrary to the requirements of Article 2, Paragraph 1,
subsections 1, 5, 6, 8 and 13-17 shall be nullified, if the request is submitted no later than five years
from the registration date.
(6)The Patent Office shall make the corresponding entry in the Register and publish an
announcement in the official bulletin on the trademark nullification or on any other changes made in
the Register in accordance with this Article.
Article 22. International agreements
If an international agreement, to which the Republic of Latvia is a party, provides for provisions
which differ from those in this Law, the provisions of the international agreement shall apply.IP/N/1/LVA/T/1
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Chairman, Supreme Council
Republic of LatviaA.Gorbunovs
Secretary, Supreme Council
Republic of Latvia
I.Daudiss
Riga, March 9, 1993The authenticity of the translation is confirmed by Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Republic
of Latvia.
For purposes of interpretation, the original Latvian text is to be regarded as official.
I.Daudiss
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