{"id":499,"date":"2023-10-18T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:31:18","slug":"5-7-oppositions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=499","title":{"rendered":"5.7 &#8211;\u00a0Oppositions Against Third Party TMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On receipt of an expression of interest by an existing or new client in opposing registration of a UK trademark, you will need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create Address Book records for the parties. If our client is not yet entered, we will need to do the usual checks (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=254\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"254\">3.1.2 Collecting Information for a New Client Record<\/a>) before creating a record. The applicant for the disputed trademark will be entered as an Otherside client, and their representative as Otherside Solicitor;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then create an Opposition file for the client, choosing sub Category as TM Offensive, and enter the details of the opposed mark, as well as the Otherside parties;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create the &#8220;Trademark possible UK opposition&#8221; e-mail to the client, making sure that the wording is adapted to suit the circumstances &#8211; the handling attorney will need to review the email before sending to see that it agrees with the initial enquiry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set a task for a week to follow up if no instructions are received.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=25\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"25\">Back to Trademark menu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On receipt of an expression of interest by an existing or new client in opposing registration of a UK trademark, you will need to: Back to Trademark menu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/765"}],"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=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}