New UK Fast-Track Trade Mark Opposition Procedure

In response to concerns about the time and cost of UK trade mark opposition proceedings, and in an effort to assist businesses, specifically SMEs, to defend their trade marks before the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) where they believe they have legal grounds and a commercial interest in doing so, the UK IPO will, in October 2013, introduce a lower cost, fast-track opposition procedure, whereby owners of existing trade mark registrations...