UK implementation of Trade Mark Directive: update

Earlier this month we reported on the UK government's proposal to implement EU Trade Mark Directive 2015/2436.  (Our blog can be found here.)  As a follow up, the government has now published the Trade Marks Regulations 2018 (SI 2018/825) which implement the Directive by amending the Trade Marks Act 1994 and related secondary legislation.  The Regulations are consistent with the government's proposal and will come into force on 14 January 2019, meaning that the UK's trade mark laws will be harmonised with the EU upon Brexit.