Have you ever thought about registering your trade mark in Hong Kong? It is not mandatory to register your trade mark in Hong Kong and it is actually quite common that businesses use a trade name or mark without obtaining any registered trade mark right at all. Registered and unregistered trade marks are both being considered as personal properties; but with a registered trade mark, a business can enjoy much better protection under the Cap. 559 Trade Marks Ordinance.
The Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance (the "Amendment Ordinance") provides a basis for the application of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registrations of Marks (Madrid Protocol) in Hong Kong. Nonetheless, those provisions concerning trade mark rights acquired in Hong Kong under the Madrid Protocol are yet to be implemented. It is believed that the international registration system would be implemented in 2022-23 as said by the Trade Marks Registry of Hong Kong.
With the aims of implementing and deepening the "Reform to Delegate Power, Streamline Administration and Optimize Government Services", and of putting forward reform on the trade mark registration system, improving business environment and increasing the level of public services, Notice is given that
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On 1 July 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission of China, the People's Government of Guangdong Province, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region signed the Framework Agreement on Deepening Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation in the Development of the Greater Bay Area ("the Agreement"). And immediately after the signing of the Agreement, the development of the Greater Bay Area ("GBA") was officially launched.
