{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/26",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Marks Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1994",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity.",
  "text": "In all legal proceedings relating to a registered trade mark (including proceedings for rectification of the register) the registration of a person as proprietor of a trade mark shall be prima facie evidence of the validity of the original registration and of any subsequent assignment or other transmission of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (with modifications) (14.8.1996) by S.I. 1996/1908, reg. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 33/2019, Art. 32b(1) (as inserted by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 26(31), Sch. 8 Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 251/2014, Art. 19b(1) (as inserted by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21, Sch. 4 Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 1151/2012, Art. 14b(1) (as inserted by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 18, Sch. 2 Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013, Art. 102b(1) (as inserted by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 20, Sch. 3 Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 72 applied (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EU) 2019/787, Art. 36b(1) (as inserted by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1661), reg. 1(3), Sch. 5 Pt. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/26/section/72",
    "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."
}