(b) It enables the UK to sign the Madrid Protocol, permitting UK trademark owners to obtain international trademarks. (c) It updates a very old and outmoded piece of legislation and deregulates an area of legislation of great importance to industry. To avoid some problems of interpretation it adopts the wording of the directive in many provisions. However, this also results in the importation into UK law of many strange Continental concepts: the directive owes a great deal to Benelux law. It also adopts most of the optional provisions of the directive. SUBJECT-MATTER OF TRADEMARKS

DOI link for (b) It enables the UK to sign the Madrid Protocol, permitting UK trademark owners to obtain international trademarks. (c) It updates a very old and outmoded piece of legislation and deregulates an area of legislation of great importance to industry. To avoid some problems of interpretation it adopts the wording of the directive in many provisions. However, this also results in the importation into UK law of many strange Continental concepts: the directive owes a great deal to Benelux law. It also adopts most of the optional provisions of the directive. SUBJECT-MATTER OF TRADEMARKS

(b) It enables the UK to sign the Madrid Protocol, permitting UK trademark owners to obtain international trademarks. (c) It updates a very old and outmoded piece of legislation and deregulates an area of legislation of great importance to industry. To avoid some problems of interpretation it adopts the wording of the directive in many provisions. However, this also results in the importation into UK law of many strange Continental concepts: the directive owes a great deal to Benelux law. It also adopts most of the optional provisions of the directive. SUBJECT-MATTER OF TRADEMARKS