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Trade Marks - Charter Service Level Commitments

  Trade Marks - Charter Service Level Commitments

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TM Headstart:

  • We will respond to your TM Headstart request within 5 working days of it being submitted.

Examination:

  • We will examine and issue a report on your application for a trade mark within three months of receiving the application. (We are working to reduce this to two months).
  • We will respond to correspondence relating to the examination of your application within four weeks of receiving it.
  • 98% of our examination reports will be free of substantive errors.

Hearings:

  • We will issue our decision within three months of holding a hearing, unless we receive further submissions or evidence.

Registration:

  • We will register your trade mark within two weeks after the opposition period has expired if no one has opposed the application and any applicable fees have been paid.

For our current compliance with these commitments, go to our Charter Report.

More Trade Marks statistics are available at our IP Statistics page.