{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/schedule-2B/paragraph-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/schedule-2B/paragraph-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/26",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Marks Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/2B/paragraph/32",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Transformation applications",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, references to a “transformation application” are to an application for transformation of an international registration which has been cancelled (a “cancelled international registration”) into an application for registration of a European Union trade mark filed under Article 204 of the European Union Trade Mark Regulation in respect of which the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied.\n(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the transformation application was filed before IP completion day with the European Union Intellectual Property Office;\n(b) as at the time immediately before IP completion day the transformation application has neither been granted nor refused by the European Union Intellectual Property Office under the European Union Trade Mark Regulation; and\n(c) the international registration was not cancelled at the request of the Patent Office as Office of origin for the international registration of the trade mark.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2)(b)—\n(a) the reference to the transformation application being “granted” means a European Union trade mark being registered under the European Union Trade Mark Regulation pursuant to the transformation application; and\n(b) the reference to the transformation application being “refused” means the transformation application being subject to the provisions in Article 204(5) of the European Union Trade Mark Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2B inserted (31.12.2020) by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 3 (with Sch. 5 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 22(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/26/schedule/2B/paragraph/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:52.874943+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}