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financial developments, this newsletter prepared by our Team
provides information that may affect the operation of your business
in Albania.
The Council of Ministers has recently approved the
"Regulation on Trademarks" which entered into force upon
its publication in the Official Gazette No. 82 dated 6 June
2018.
The regulation aims to implement and define in detail the
specific issues provided by law no. 9947, dated 07.07.2008,
"On Industrial Property", as amended, with regard to
trademark procedures followed by the General Directory of
Industrial Property (GDPI).
One of the novelties is that the regulation establishes that the
GDPI may now conduct a trademark research not only based on
"word" elements but also on "figurative"
elements. In this way, the overlapping of the same or similar
brands in the Register of the GDPI may be avoided.
