Your Australian trade mark application has been accepted for
Registration. The earliest that a trade mark can be registered is
seven and a half months after an application has been filed. This
fulfils the international obligations to allow six months for
applicants to claim a priority filing date based on an earlier
overseas filing date.
As a consequence, your trade mark will be advertised as accepted in
the Official Journal (now online) at about four months from the
filing date of your Australian Trade Mark application. At that
stage, it will be open for other people to file opposition to your
application.
Then you must pay within 6 months. Advertisment starts the
3 month opposition period. If you pay the Australian trade mark post
application (post filing) fee of US$300 per category and
no-one objects within this time period or seeks an extension of time
your trade mark in Australia will automatically be registered when
the period expires.
For further information about the contents of this Australian Trade
Mark acceptance notice, please
contact your Australian trade mark agent's service.
