חוק לתיקון פקודת סימני מסחר (מס' 9), התשפ"ה–2025Law to Amend the Trade Marks Ordinance (No. 9), 2025 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The purpose of the amending Law is to adapt the provisions of the Trademarks Ordinance [New Version], 1972, to the international obligations of the State of Israel arising from the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (hereinafter - the Madrid Protocol), to which Israel is a member state. The Madrid Protocol establishes a procedure for the international registration of trademarks, according to which the owner of a mark may submit a single application to the International Bureau of the International Intellectual Property Organization for the registration of the mark, and register the trademark on the basis of that application in all the member states of the Protocol as requested. After the registration of the international trademark, the owner of the mark can perform various actions regarding the mark, such as changing ownership of it, in a centralized manner through the International Bureau. Hence, registering a trademark in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol saves the mark owner significant time and resources. The amending Law adapts the provisions of Israeli law to a new interpretation of the provisions of the Madrid Protocol, which was anchored in amendments to the regulations under the Protocol, by determining that the registration of an international trademark will replace the registration of the Israeli national trademark, even if the international trademark is registered, with respect to Israel, only for part of the goods for which the national mark is registered, and this with respect to those goods. In addition, and in accordance with the provisions of the Madrid Protocol, the amending Law determines that the noting of this replacement in the Trademarks Register will be done at the request of the person in whose name the national trademark is registered. The aforementioned provisions of the amending Law, which benefit the public of trademark owners, entered into force on 1 February 2025, as required under the amendments made under the Protocol, and they also apply to an international trademark for which, as of that date, an application designating Israel was pending.

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