{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1797",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/40",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Application for revocation (on grounds other than non-use): evidence rounds",
  "text": "(1) Where the proprietor has filed a Form TM8, the registrar shall specify the periods within which further evidence may be filed by the parties.\n(2) Where the applicant files no further evidence in support of the application the applicant, shall, unless the registrar otherwise directs, be deemed to have withdrawn the application.\n(3) The registrar shall notify the proprietor of any direction given under paragraph (2).\n(4) The registrar may, at any time give leave to either party to file evidence upon such terms as the registrar thinks fit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 40(1) substituted (1.10.2008) by The Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2300), rules 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 40 in force at 1.10.2008, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1797/rule/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:07.429295+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."
}