Glossary of Trade Marks Tribunal - Glossario Tribunale Marchi

Inter Partes

It is used to refer to legal proceedings of an adversarial nature between two or more parties, in opposition proceedings between the application for registration and the opponent.

Invalidity

A decision that a registered trade mark should not have been granted due to grounds that subsisted at the time of the grant of the application. Once declared invalid, such a trade mark will be deemed never to have been registered.