Practice amendment notices
These announce changes to our practice, such as how we interpret a provision of the law, or how we handle applications.
- 02/09 Procedure governing the appointment of Ex Parte Hearings
- 01/09 Shopping Centre Services
- 01/08 Examination practice
- 08/07 Section 5 : Relative Grounds : Notification
- 07/07 Examination practice - Section 3(1)(a)
- 06/07 Evidence of acquired distinctiveness through use
- 05/07 Deceptive marks and protected/prohibited words
- 04/07 Pictorial representations or names of well known buildings
- 03/07 Shapes/Representations of the goods
- 02/07 Graphical Representation
- 01/07 Foreign descriptive use: interpretation of the internet and Registrability of non – English words
- 14/06 Partial Refusals
- 13/06 Wording of Disclaimers and Limitations
- 12/06 Registrability of non-English words
- 11/06 Relative Grounds for Refusal
- 10/06 Letter and numeral marks
- 09/06 Section 3(1)(d) of the Act
- 08/06 Relevancy
- 07/06 Retail Services: search of the Register
- 06/06 Evidence of distinctiveness acquired through use
- 05/06 Wide and Vague specifications
- 04/06 The names of the Royal Family
- 03/06 Examples of marks considered to be objectionable under Section 3(3)(a)
- 02/06 Colour Trade Marks
- 01/06 Slogans
- 06/05 Retail Services
- 05/05 Trade mark applications covering tobacco products or applications for trade marks which cover non-tobacco products where the trade mark is the same or similar.
The following notices show changes to practice which are not included anywhere in the Work Manual.
- 02/04 Trade marks owned by partnerships
- 02/03 Period of Time Allowed for Responding to Objections Raised by the Office in Examination Reports
- 12/02 Certification Services being claimed in trade mark applications
- 10/02 Citing practice on 'Alcopops'
- 09/02 E, I and M Prefixed Marks
- 02/01 Section 3 and Section 5 practice in relation to applications made to register a mark as both a trade mark and a Collective Mark, or as both a trade mark and Certification Mark
- 01/01 The conduct of Ex Parte Hearings