ISRAEL Law and Practice Contributed by: Ronit Barzik-Soffer, Luiz Blanc and Rakefet Peled, Reinhold Cohn Group
• a mark implying a connection with the presi - dent or with his house or the patronage of the president, and a mark that can be inferred from said connection or patronage; • the Israeli flag, institutions or symbols, flags of foreign countries and international organi - sations and their symbols, and any sign simi - lar to one of them; • official pedigree marks, official signs and seals in which a state usually indicates super - vision or guarantee, and any mark similar to them, as well as a mark from which it can be concluded that the owner benefits from the patronage of a head of state or government, or that the owner supplies goods or renders services to a head of state or government, all if it has not been proved to the registrar that the owner of the mark is entitled to use the same mark; • a mark in which one of the following appears – “patent”, “registered patent”, “according to a state document”, “registered”, “registered model”, “copyright”, “imitation of this – coun - terfeit”, or an expression similar to these; • a sign that harms or may harm public order or morality; • a mark that may deceive the public or that contains a false indication of origin or a mark that encourages unfair competition; • a mark that includes a geographical indication for goods whose origin is not in the indicated geographical area, if the geographical indica - tion is misleading in relation to the true geo - graphical area of the origin of the goods; • a mark that includes a geographical indica - tion that is literally correct, but that contains a misrepresentation as if the goods originated in another geographical area; • a mark that is identical to a symbol with only a religious meaning; • a mark that has a picture of a person on it, unless the consent of the person concerned
has been obtained, and if it is the picture of a person who has died, the registrar will require the consent of the relatives, unless the reg - istrar has reason to believe there are reason- able reasons not to require this; • a mark that consists of numerals, letters or words, which are commonly used to indicate or describe the relevant goods or services or their nature or quality, unless the mark has acquired a distinctive character; • a mark whose usual meaning is geographical or a surname, if it is not presented in a special form, unless it has acquired a distinctive character; and • a mark identifying a wine or alcoholic bever - age that includes a geographical indication, if the origin of the wine or alcoholic beverage is not in the same geographic area. 4.11 The Madrid System Israel is a party to the Madrid Protocol, and thus allows trade mark owners to extend their inter - national trade mark protection by designating Israel in their international registration. 5. Trade Mark Procedure for Inter Partes Proceedings 5.1 Timeframes for Filing an Opposition or Cancellation The deadline to oppose a trade mark is with - in three months of the publication date, non- extendable, but subsequent deadlines are extendable, subject to the other party’s consent. Any aggrieved person may file a cancellation action within five years from the date of the trade mark registration on the same grounds available for filing oppositions.
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