Reviewed 23 April 2012

Trade marks general notices

This table contains a list of all our trade mark notices. The title of the notices can be found in the first column. Read across a row to find the date the notice was added to the website.
Title Date added
Finland and Latvia join TMview 23 April 2012
Change to rules affecting optional notification service and merging of registered trade marks 8 March 2012
Lithuania, Romania and Sweden join TMview 31 January 2012
Changes to the NICE classification system from the 1 January 2012 (10th Edition) 1 January 2012
Ending the reclassification of specifications 5 August 2011
New Hours of Business at the Intellectual Property Office 27 June 2011
France joins TMview 3 May 2011
Japan earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 24 March 2011
TMView joins with Bulgaria 13 December 2010
TMView links to Estonia 25 October 2010
Tribunal guidance update 14 October 2010
Europe-wide searching moves closer 13 October 2010
TM6 - Notification request for conflicting later filed mark - Renewal 23 September 2010
Enhancement to electronic correspondence 10 September 2010
Europe-wide searching takes another step 9 August 2010
Change to period of grace arrangements 26 July 2010
Correspondence changes from 1 October 2009 7 September 2009
New trade mark fees and services 9 July 2009
Trade marks - The International Examination Guide 16 April 2009
New address for service rules 6 April 2009
Trade marks - The Examination Guide 3 March 2009
New Form TM26(I) 1 September 2008
New Form TM7 12 May 2008
New Form TM33(P) 21 April 2008
Fast-track examination system 11 January 2008
Change to period of grace arrangements 5 December 2007
Changes to the examination process on relative grounds 2 July 2007
Update: Changes to trade mark forms 21 March 2007
Changes to trade mark forms 9 March 2007
Amendment to the Trade Mark Rules following a number of Statutory Instruments 23 February 2007
Amendment to the Trade Mark Act following a number of Statutory Instruments 23 February 2007
EuroClass: the new online classification tool PDF document(108Kb) 10 October 2006
Addendum to Chapter 6 of the Trade Marks Work Manual 17 May 2006
Changes to the class headings of the international classification of goods and services for the purposes of the registration of marks (Nice union) 31 March 2006