{"id":318,"date":"2021-07-23T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.91.100\/wordpress\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:14:03","slug":"5-1-uk-trademarks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=318","title":{"rendered":"5.1 UK Trademarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Introduction&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law and practice relating to the registration of UK trademarks is covered by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/tmact94.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Marks Act 1994, as amended&nbsp;(305Kb)<\/a>.&nbsp; This is administered in accordance with&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/tmrules2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Marks Rules 2008&nbsp;(383Kb)<\/a>&nbsp;which came into force on 1 October 2008.&nbsp; Please note that&nbsp;these rules revoke and replace the Trade Mark Rules 2000.&nbsp;The law relating to trade marks may also be affected by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/pro-types\/pro-tm\/t-law\/t-law-statutory.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statutory Instruments<\/a>. These are secondary legislation passed by parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Practice &amp; procedures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updates and changes to UK practice are published in&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/pro-types\/pro-tm\/t-law.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Law &amp; Practice<\/a>&nbsp;section of the UKIPO website.&nbsp; Please&nbsp;visit regularly&nbsp;to check for updates.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Please select the appropriate stage in the procedure &#8211; these follow the standard letter organisation (UKT simply stands for&nbsp;UK Trademark):&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=680\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"680\">5.1.1 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTA &#8211; Preliminaries<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.1.2 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTB &#8211; Application<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=742\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"742\">5.1.3 &#8211;\u00a0UKTE &#8211; Examination and Publication<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.1.4 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTO &#8211; Oppositions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=737\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"737\">5.1.5 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTG &#8211; Registration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=729\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"729\">5.1.6 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTH &#8211; Renewals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=486\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"486\">5.1.7 &#8211;&nbsp;UKTM &#8211; Maintenance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Useful links:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/pro-types\/pro-tm\/pro-t-formsfees.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UKIPO Forms &amp; fees<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=318\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"318\">Back to&nbsp;5. Trademark Procedures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction&nbsp; The law and practice relating to the registration of UK trademarks is covered by the&nbsp;Trade Marks Act 1994, as amended&nbsp;(305Kb).&nbsp; This is administered in accordance with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Trade Marks\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions\/744"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}