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Timestamp: 2020-08-11 03:46:26
Document Index: 132423502

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 1', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 4', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 6', 'Art. 8', 'Art. 9', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 11', 'Art. 12', 'Art. 13', 'Art. 14', 'Art. 16', 'Art. 17', 'Art. 18', 'Art. 19', 'Art. 20', 'Art. 21', 'Art. 22', 'Art. 24', 'Art. 25', 'Art. 26', 'Art. 27', 'Art. 28', 'Art. 29', 'Art. 30', 'Art. 31', 'Art. 33', 'Art. 34', 'Art. 35', 'Art. 36', 'Art. 38']

Art. 1.—(1) A trademark shall be any sign capable of being represented graphically and of distinguishing the goods or services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings.
Art. 3.—(1) The following shall not be registered as trademarks:
Art. 4.—(1) A trademark shall not be registered:
(2) For the purposes of this Law, “earlier trademarks” means:
Art. 5. Where a trademark consists of the applicant’s name and the same name has already been registered as a trademark by another person to distinguish identical or similar goods, a distinctive sign shall be added to make it clearly distinguishable from the earlier trademark.
Art. 6.—(1) A trademark shall be registered by means of an application filed with the competent department of the Ministry of Commerce.
(d) a power of attorney for the registration of the trademark, bearing the applicant’s signature.
Art. 8.—(1) The Administrative Trademark Committee shall decide on the acceptance of the application for registration.
(4) The members of the Administrative Committee’s departments shall be appointed, together with an equal number of alternate members, by a decision of the Minister for Commerce, issued in September of every other year, on a proposal made by the State Legal Council, with respect to the President of the Committee, and by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Athens and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Piraeus, for the representatives of industry. Senior officials of the Directorate of Commercial and Industrial Property of the Ministry of Commerce shall be appointed as alternates to the Director or Head of Section of that Directorate.
Art. 9.—(1) The Administrative Trademark Committee shall have its seat in Athens. The Committee shall meet at the Ministry of Commerce in an office to be determined by an order of the competent Head of Section; the order shall be displayed in the office concerned.
Art. 10.—(1) Any person may file opposition to a decision taken by the Administrative Trademark Committee that accepts the registration of a trademark, in whole or in part, on condition that he can show a legitimate interest, even if such interest is not a financial interest, and that has not been raised during the hearing of the application. Such right shall also belong to the Chambers, but only for the grounds set out in Article 3 of this Law.
Art. 11.—(1) The legal submissions to the Administrative Trademark Committee shall contain:(a) the names and addresses of the parties, (b) a notice of the decision opposed, (c) the grounds of opposition, (d) the date of the decision opposed and the signature of the opponent or his representative.
Art. 12.—(1) Any person having a legitimate interest therein, even if such interest is not a financial interest, may intervene before the Administrative Trademark Committee, the Courts and the State Council. The right to intervene shall also belong to each Chamber, but only for the grounds set out in Article 3 of this Law.
Art. 13.—(1) An appeal shall lie from decisions of the Administrative Trademark Committee to the competent Administrative Court of First Instance and shall be available to any one having a legitimate interest.
Art. 14.—(1) The decisions of the Administrative Trademark Committee, the Administrative Courts and the State Council shall be entered in the register referred to in Article 6 of this Law. Once a trademark has been accepted by means of a final decision, the word “registered” and any amendments with regard to the goods or services to which the trademark is applied shall be entered in the trademark register. The entry in the register shall be dated and duly signed.
Art. 16—(1) If a written agreement is filed together with the application, it shall be admissible to register an identical trademark intended to distinguish identical or similar goods or services, in whole or in part, provided that there is no likelihood of confusion and that it is not contrary to the public interest.
Art. 17.—(1) A trademark shall be cancelled, in whole or in part, by a decision of the Administrative Trademark Committee or of the competent courts in the following cases:
(a) if the owner of the trademark is able to give good reason for failure to use or for the interruption of the undertaking’s activities;
(4) For the purposes of this Article, “use” of a trademark means any use referred to in Article 18(2) of this Law.
Art. 18.—(1) Registration of a trademark shall confer on the owner exclusive rights therein. Those rights shall include the right of use, the right to affix the trademark to the goods it is intended to distinguish, to use the trademark to distinguish the rendering of services, to affix the trademark to the get-up and packaging of the goods, to use the trademark on business papers, invoices, price lists, notifications, any kind of advertising and any other printed matter and to use the trademark on electronic or audiovisual media.
(2) “Use” of a trademark shall also be constituted by:
(c) use of the trademark with the owner’s consent and use of a collective trademark by the persons entitled thereto.
Art. 19.—(1) A trademark may only be used in connection with the goods or services of its owner, with the exception of the special cases as provided in this Law.
(3) The manufacturer of goods that are not identical or similar may use an identical trademark in connection with the sale of another person’s goods provided that the original trademark of the goods remains in force. The same shall apply mutatis mutandis to service marks.
(4) In all other cases, the use of a trademark on the goods or services of another person or in any other way shall be prohibited failing the owner’s consent except as specially provided in this Law.
Art. 20.—(1) The rights conferred by a trademark shall not entitle the owner to prohibit a third party from using, in the course of trade, his own name and address, indications concerning the kind, quality, intended purpose, value, geographical origin, time of production of the goods or of rendering of the service, or other characteristics of the goods or service or from using the trademark where it is necessary to indicate the intended purpose of a product or service, in particular as accessories or spare parts.
Art. 21.—(1) Trademark protection shall subsist for ten years from the day following the date of application.
Art. 22.—(1) The rights conferred by a trademark may be transferred during the owner’s lifetime or after his death, separately from any transfer of the undertaking.
Art. 24.—(1) A trademark may be attached and sold by auction.
(4) Where a trademark consists solely of the owner’s name, no attachment or sale by auction shall be permissible.
Art. 25.—(1) Partnerships, unions or associations pursuing professional goals and which have legal personality, even if they do not themselves operate a business, shall be entitled to register trademarks to distinguish the goods or services manufactured, sold or provided by their members (collective trademarks). This provision shall also apply to legal persons governed by public law.
(9) A collective mark shall be used in conjunction with the words “collective mark.”
Art. 26.—(1) Proceedings may be instituted against any person who uses, alters or imitates a trademark that is the property of another for omission or damages or for both. The same shall apply to any person using a trademark that is identical with or similar to another trademark but is not used with regard to goods or services similar to those for which the trademark is registered, where the latter has acquired a reputation in Greece and where use of that sign without due cause would take unfair advantage of or be detrimental to the distinctive character or the repute of the earlier trademark.
Art. 27.—(1) Any person entitled to institute proceedings for omission contrary to this Law may seek provisional measures.
Art. 28.—(1) Any person who
(b) knowingly affixes to the undertaking’s goods or to articles of the undertaking’s trade a trademark of which he is not the owner;
Art. 29. For the offenses referred to in Article 28(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) and offenses committed after registration of the plaintiff’s trademark, prosecution shall begin with the filing of the complaint; in the case of paragraph (1)(f), prosecution shall be ex officio.
Art. 30. The court shall order publication of a summary of each sentence to be made at the convicted party’s expense in two daily newspapers of Athens if the offense was committed within the Prefecture of Attica. If the offense was committed in another Prefecture, publication shall be made in one daily newspaper in Athens and in one local daily newspaper or, if there is no local newspaper, in one daily newspaper of the capital of the Prefecture.
Art. 31.—(1) In cases of alteration, the civil or criminal court shall order the destruction of the goods that bear the altered trademark; in the case of imitation, the removal and destruction of the trademark or the destruction of the goods shall be ordered.
Art. 33.—(1) Greek or foreign persons who have their registered offices outside Greece may enjoy protection under the provisions of this Law if their trademarks are protected in such State and equivalent protection is afforded to Greek trademarks under an international treaty or by the exchange of governmental declarations between Greece and the foreign State.
(b) special powers of attorney signed by the applicant containing an application for submission to the jurisdiction of the Athens courts. The application may also be submitted in writing by the applicant’s representative and filed with the competent trademark authority.
Art. 34. The publications referred to in this Law shall be made in a special edition of the Government Gazette issued monthly under the title “Commercial and Industrial Property.”
Art. 35.—(1) The public fees in relation to trademarks are established as follows:
Art. 36.—(1) Article 9 of Royal Decree 20/27.12.1939 (Government Gazette 553A) implementing the Trademark Law 1998/1939, as amended by Article 4 of the Royal Decree of 26 September/6 October 1955 shall continue to apply.
Art. 38.—(1) Where the provisions on service marks are applied for the first time, and for a period not exceeding five years as from the entry into force of this Law, acceptance of such marks in the event of a dispute shall be based on a proven claim to priority use.
(This text replaces the one previously published under the same code number—Revised translation.)