{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-regulations-2018/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-regulations-2018/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/825",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Publication, opposition proceedings and observations",
  "text": "(1) Section 38 is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Where a notice of opposition is filed on the basis of one or more earlier trade marks or other earlier rights—\n(a) the rights (if plural) must all belong to the same proprietor;\n(b) the notice may be filed on the basis of part, or the totality, of the goods or services in respect of which the earlier right is protected or applied for.\n(2B) A notice of opposition may be directed against part or the totality of the goods or services in respect of which the contested mark is applied for.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/825/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:46.552057+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."
}