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How BioNTech will Name its Covid-19 Vaccine as a Trademark in UK?

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The United Kingdom has officially begun the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines as of December 8th. With the extraordinarily rapid approval of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regularity Agency (MHRA), amount of 800.000 vaccines were brought to the UK in the first place.

But the trademark name has not been legally revealed yet.

According to the UK Intellectual Property Office and EUIPO database, there have been five trademark applications in the name of BioNTech Se in the scope of good ‘vaccines for human use’.

Priority right claims based on BioNTech’s previous German trademark applications are noteworthy in all these five TM applications in the UK. This means if the cited trademarks are granted registration in the UK, BioNTech will be able to protect its trademarks against third parties as of the application date in Germany.

The current situation of the trademark applications is that COVUITY, KOVIMERNA and COMIRNATY are published in the Bulletin whereas the device mark is still under examination and the RNAXCOVI trademark is registered.

It is a mystery that which trademark will be used in the first country approving Covid-19 vaccine!

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Gamze Bakır

Starting her career in IP and being a chartered Trademark Attorney before TurkPatent in 2013, Gamze C. Bakır practiced as Manager of Trademark&Design Department in a Turkish IP firm. Her area of expertise mainly focuses on application, protection and maintenance of Intellectual Property rights, specifically trademarks and designs, both domestically and internationally.

She actively participated in many national and international events, training, and seminars. Since 2015, she has also been an active member at INTA and ECTA meetings. She is fluent in English.

Education
Middle East Technical University, MS (2011)
Hacettepe University, BA (2005)

Nihan Saman


Starting her career in IP and being a chartered Trademark Attorney before TurkPatent in 2013, Nihan O. Saman practiced as Team Leader of Trademark&Design Department in a Turkish IP firm. Her area of expertise mainly focuses on application, protection and maintenance of Intellectual Property rights, specifically plant variety protection, trademarks and designs, both domestically and internationally.

She actively participated in many national and international training, and seminars. She is fluent in English.

Education
Hacettepe University, MBA (2011)
Hacettepe University, BA (2005)