Signal Communications Ltd v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-128/99)

Judgment of 15 Nov 2001

law://eu/cjeu/1999/t-128-99/para_38@2026-11-15

38The right of priority is one of the main pillars of the Convention and was designed by the framers of the Convention to enable holders of such a right in one of the countries party to the Convention (hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘the Union’), who are faced with the impossibility of simultaneously filing applications for a given trade mark in all the countries of the Union, to apply for it successively in each such country. The right of priority thereby gives an international dimension to the protection which is obtained in any one of the countries of the Union without a multiplicity of formalities needing to be accomplished. It is one of a number of rules laid down by the Convention which are designed to coordinate the protection of industrial property rights throughout the territory of the Union.

Signal Communications Ltd v European Union Intellectual Property Office (T-128/99)

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