(1) The provisions of this Act concerning the duration of protection and its renewal (section 47) shall be applicable to trade marks registered before 14 January 2019, with the proviso that section 47 (1) in the version valid up to that date shall continue to be applicable to the calculation of the period after which the duration of protection ends.
(2) For registered trade marks whose duration of protection under section 47 (1) ends 12 months after 31 January 2019, at the latest, sections 3, 5 and 7 of the Patent Costs Act of 13 December 2001 (Federal Law Gazette [BGBl.] I, p. 3656), as last amended by Article 13 of the Act of 4 April 2016 (Federal Law Gazette [BGBl.] I, p. 558), shall continue to be applicable in the version valid up to that date.
Sections 160 to 163
(repealed)