{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-international-registration-order-1996/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-international-registration-order-1996/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/714",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks (International Registration) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-international-registration-order-1996",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Examination",
  "text": "(1) Upon receiving from the International Bureau notification of an international registration designating the United Kingdom, the registrar shall examine whether it satisfies the requirements of article 3.\n(2) For that purpose, he shall carry out a search, to such extent as he considers necessary, of earlier trade marks.\n(3) If it appears to the registrar that the requirements referred to in paragraph (1) above are not met, or are met only in relation to some of the goods or services in respect of which protection in the United Kingdom has been requested, he shall give notice of refusal to the International Bureau.\n(4) Notice of refusal shall specify a period within which the holder may make representations.\n(5) A holder making representations shall file an address for service in the United Kingdom on Form TM33.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/763",
      "affecting_title": "The Trade Marks (International Registration) (Amendment) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/692",
      "affecting_title": "The Trade Marks (International Registration) (Amendment) Order 2002"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/714/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:27.775425+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."
}