Advertising accepted trade marks

What happens once the mark is accepted?

Once we have accepted your trade mark we will publish it in our weekly Trade Marks Journal and write to tell you the publication date and the number of that Journal.

We publish the Trade Marks Journal on Fridays (except public holidays). It contains full details of:

• all trade mark applications accepted in the previous week (Thursday to Wednesday).
• registrations, renewals, and changes to the register.

After we publish your trade mark, anybody may make observations on its acceptance or oppose its registration. The opposition period runs from the publication date of the Journal and lasts for three-months.

If we receive any opposition to the acceptance of the trade mark we will copy any correspondence to you and tell you how to deal with the opposition process.

The mark becomes registered  

At the end of the opposition period, if nobody has objected to it, your mark will automatically go forward into an electronic queue to become registered. We will issue a registration certificate and send it to your address for service.