Region: Hungary

The change is due to the increasing number of cases where applicants and rights holders were represented by persons or companies that were not professional representatives.

14 June 2023

A key change is that oppositions should now include not only the legal grounds on which they are based, but also detailed reasoning and supporting evidence.

20 February 2023

Featured in World Trademark Review Yearbook 2022/2023

When the so-called Gömböc object (in colloquial language, this term refers to a short and chubby person) was developed in 2006 by two Hungarian scientists, Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi, it had a significant effect on various fields from mathematics to pharmaceutical research. It is also the subject of a long-running and potentially ground-breaking registration effort.

21 October 2022

For the submission of declarations or responses to office actions relating to application deficiencies, applicants may request up to three one-month extensions, or one three-month extension, without the need to support the request with evidence.

03 May 2022

Act LXVII, which amends a number of industrial property laws in order to transpose Directive 2015/2436 into the national legislation, has entered into force in Hungary. This update reviews the main amendments introduced by the act. 

05 March 2019

A new fee structure for trademark-related services has entered into force in Hungary. Official fees have decreased for services related to trademarks registered in one class only, but have increased for trademarks registered in two or more classes.

13 February 2019

Featured in Designs: A Global Guide 2019

The national industrial design protection regime grants legal protection for the appearance of the whole or a part of a product, from the features of, in particular, the lines, contours, colours, shape, texture and materials of the product itself or its ornamentation.

07 January 2019

In the second of our five-part series, trademark counsel from law firms across Europe provide an overview of the performance of their countries’ EU trademark courts over the last two years.

17 August 2018

Featured in Designs 2016: A Global Guide

Hungarian design law accepts the overlap of different protection regimes for the same product. Thus, as well as industrial design protection, parties acquiring or enforcing design rights may make use of trademark and copyright protection and unfair competition law.

14 December 2015

A significant addition to the Hungarian Act on Medicinal Products for Human Use has entered into force: Paragraph 20/A, entitled “Temporary inaccessibility of electronic data”. The amendment allows the National Institute for Quality and Organisational Development in Healthcare and Medicines to combat the sale of counterfeit drugs online faster and more effectively.

13 February 2015