Does your design consist of, or include, Royal insignia, certain protected flags and international emblems, etc?
If your design includes representations of certain protected symbols or other protected emblems or images, we will object to the registration unless you have permission to use these elements in your design.
These include:
- Royal arms, crowns or flags, or members of the Royal family
A
detailed list and contact details are available on page 115 of the Trade Marks Manual
of Practice 
(2.4Mb).
- Misleading or offensive use of flags of countries in the United Kingdom.
- Coats of arms subject to a grant of arms by the Crown.
See
the websites of the College of Arms 
in England, Wales, Northern Ireland & the
Commonwealth, and the Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland for more information.
- Olympic symbols, words, emblems etc.
You will need to seek
permission from the International Olympics Committee (IOC) but information on use related to the London
2012 games can be found on the London 2012 website .
- Flags
of countries party to the Paris Convention .
- Signs
and hallmarks
of warranty adopted by Paris Convention countries and viewable on the World Intellectual
Property Organisation’s
database .
- The Red Cross and related words and symbols protected by the Geneva Conventions Act 1957.
A
detailed list can be found on page 103 of the Trade Marks Manual of Practice (2.4Mb).