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5.2 Filing and convention dates

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An application for merger of separate trade mark applications or registrations will not be accepted where the marks have a different filing date or convention priority date12.

An application for merger will not be accepted where one application or registration claims a multiple or partial convention priority and the other application or registration does not.



Footnote

12 Regulation 54(2)(b) of the Trade Marks Regulations 2003.



Last updated 23 June 2008