Exclusive jurisdiction
Intellectual Property Rights

An exclusionary exception arises under the Judgements Regulation, Article 22(4). Regardless of domicile, in proceedings concerned with the registration or validity of patents, trade marks, designs, or other similar rights required to be deposited or registered, jurisdiction is reserved to the courts of the contracting State in which the deposit or registration has been applied for, has taken place or is under the terms of an international convention deemed to have taken place.