{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008/rule-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1797",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Determination of classification",
  "text": "(1) Where an application does not satisfy the requirements of rule 8(2) or (3), the registrar shall send notice to the applicant.\n(2) A notice sent under paragraph (1) shall specify a period, of not less than one month, within which the applicant must satisfy those requirements.\n(3) Where the applicant fails to satisfy the requirements of rule 8(2) before the expiry of the period specified under paragraph (2), the registrar must reject the application for registration, insofar as it relates to any goods or services which failed that requirement ....\n(4) Where the applicant fails to satisfy the requirements of rule 8(3) before the expiry of the period specified under paragraph (2), the application for registration shall be treated as abandoned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 9(3) inserted (14.1.2019) by The Trade Marks Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/825), regs. 1(1), 37(a) (with Pt. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 9(3) omitted (14.1.2019) by virtue of The Trade Marks Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/825), regs. 1(1), 37(b) (with Pt. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 9 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/9",
    "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."
}