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European Collective Mark

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Previous chapters of Part II dealt with the protection of IGOs at the EU level, i.e. IGOs as unitary rights, through the direct protection system. However, protection of IGOs at the EU level may be ensured not only through the direct protection system, but also through trade mark protection system, namely, through protection as a Community collective mark. That protection is ensured by the Codifying Community Trade Mark Regulation, namely Title VIII containing Arts. 66–74 (previously—Arts. 64–72 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation). From the point of view of the territorial scope, Community collective mark differs from national collective marks of EU Member States. Generally trade mark law of EU Member States provides for the registration of collective marks, however, since they are treated as trade marks, their territorial scope is limited with a respective EU Member State. In the case of Community collective marks, their territorial scope is the entire European Union and due to that reason they are unitary rights.