Brexit and cloning of EU registrations
Is your trademark going to be valid in the UK if you filed it in the EU?
The UK left the European Union on 1 February 2020. Any existing registered EU trademarks will continue to be valid in the remaining member states of the EU and will automatically be cloned into a comparable UK registered trademark, without any additional costs, on 1 January 2021.
All priority and seniority claims will be inherited in the UK registrations. UKIPO will not issue registration certificates and will not contact trademark owners or their representatives. The cloned UK registration number will be composed of the Prefix UK009 and the last 8 digits of the existing EU registration number. No action is required on your part.
If you already have a registered UK trademark and registered EU trademark, you will end up with 2 UK registrations, one of which later simply does not have to be renewed.
If your pending EU trademark has not registered on December 31, 2020, it will not be cloned in the UK and won’t be valid in the UK later.