{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/26",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Marks Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Withdrawal, restriction or amendment of application.",
  "text": "(1) The applicant may at any time withdraw his application or restrict the goods or services covered by the application.\nIf the application has been published, the withdrawal or restriction shall also be published.\n(2) In other respects, an application may be amended, at the request of the applicant, only by correcting—\n(a) the name or address of the applicant,\n(b) errors of wording or of copying, or\n(c) obvious mistakes,\nand then only where the correction does not substantially affect the identity of the trade mark or extend the goods or services covered by the application.\n(3) Provision shall be made by rules for the publication of any amendment which affects the representation of the trade mark, or the goods or services covered by the application, and for the making of objections by any person claiming to be affected by it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 wholly in force at 31.10.1994; s. 39 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 109; s. 39(3) in force for certain purposes at 29.9.1994 and at 31.10.1994 insofar as s. 39 not already in force by S.I. 1994/2550, arts. 2, 3(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/26/section/39",
    "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."
}