Traduction de «Titulaire de charge antérieur » (Français → Anglais) :

prior encumbrance

public office holder [ POH | holder of public office ]

Advisory Committee on Post-Employment Activities Guidelines

prior period adjustments | prior year adjustments

In order to ensure legal certainty and safeguard legitimately acquired trade mark rights, it is appropriate and necessary to provide that, without prejudice to the principle that the later trade mark cannot be enforced against the earlier trade mark, proprietors of earlier trade marks should not be entitled to obtain refusal or invalidation or to oppose the use of a later trade mark if the later trade mark was acquired at a time when the earlier trade mark was liable to be declared invalid or revoked, for example because it had not yet acquired distinctiveness through use, or if the earlier trade mark could not be enforced against the la ...[+++]ter trade mark because the necessary conditions were not applicable, for example when the earlier mark had not yet obtained a reputation.

It should however be noted that many offices that have abolished the ex officio examination of relative grounds still provide (ex officio) their applicants with searches and search results with regards to earlier rights as well as notifications to proprietors of earlier rights of applications that may conflict with their rights.

67. Stresses that holders of high office should be subjected to adequate controls, inter alia by the tax authorities; recommends, in particular, that holders of public office submit declarations concerning their activities, income, responsibilities and interests;

(28) In order to ensure legal certainty and safeguard trade mark rights legitimately acquired, it is appropriate and necessary to lay down, without affecting the principle that the later trade mark cannot be enforced against the earlier trade mark, that proprietors of earlier trade marks should not be entitled to obtain refusal or invalidation or to oppose the use of a later trade mark when the later trade mark was acquired at a time when the earlier trade mark was liable to be declared invalid or revoked, for example because it had not yet acquired distinctiveness through use, or when the earlier trade mark could not be enforced against ...[+++] the later trade mark because the necessary conditions were not applicable, for example when the earlier mark had not yet obtained reputation.