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UK trade marks

Every Friday the Intellectual Property Office advertises the marks it has accepted that week. Search that journal by the wording of a mark — to see who is filing something close to your brand — or by the applicant, to see what a company has applied for.

An applicant is matched exactly, on the registered name. Mark wording is matched anywhere in the text.

MAGBOR
Jason Tasker
UK00004424719 · Word · advertised 14/08/2026 in journal 2026/033
Pharmaceuticals

What this covers, and what it does not

This is the journal, not the register. The IPO publishes the weekly journal as an XML file and publishes no bulk export of the full register; the bulk APIs it has promised as part of One IPO are not available yet. So what you see here is everything advertised since we began reading, growing by a few thousand marks a week — accurate for what it holds, and openly incomplete before that date.

An advertised mark is not yet a registered one: it has been accepted and is open to opposition. Check the IPO's own record before acting on anything here.

Watching the journal, and why the timing matters

A trade mark gives its owner the right to stop others using a confusingly similar sign on similar goods or services. It is granted per class — the Nice classification runs to 45 of them, 1 to 34 for goods and 35 to 45 for services — so the same word can belong to different owners in different trades without either infringing the other.

The UK IPO does not refuse an application because it clashes with yours. It examines on absolute grounds — whether the sign is distinctive, descriptive or deceptive — notifies earlier owners it finds, and then publishes. Objecting on relative grounds is left to whoever holds the earlier right, and only during the two months after publication. Nobody does it for you.

Which makes the journal a working document rather than an archive. Read weekly, it tells you who is filing near your brand while you can still oppose for the cost of a form. Read afterwards, it tells you what you missed.

Frequently asked questions

What is the trade marks journal?▾
Every Friday the UK Intellectual Property Office publishes the marks it has accepted that week. Publication is what starts the opposition period: anyone with grounds has two months to object, extendable to three by filing a TM7A inside that window. A mark nobody opposes proceeds to registration.
Why would I search the journal rather than the register?▾
Because the journal is where you find out in time. By the time a conflicting mark is on the register the window to oppose it has closed, and your remedy is invalidation — slower, dearer and harder. Watching the journal for wording close to your own brand is how the objection gets made while objecting is still cheap.
How do the two searches differ?▾
Mark wording is matched anywhere in the text, because the point is to catch something near your brand rather than identical to it. An applicant is matched exactly on the registered name, because a near miss would attribute one company’s brand to another. Purely figurative marks have no wording at all and are found by applicant or by number.
What does this hold, and what is missing?▾
Everything advertised since we began reading the journal, growing by a few thousand marks a week. It is accurate for what it holds and openly incomplete before that date. The IPO publishes the weekly journal as XML but publishes no bulk export of the full register, and the bulk APIs promised under One IPO are not available yet — so an older mark is not here, and its absence means nothing.
Is an advertised mark the same as a registered one?▾
No. Advertised means the IPO examined the application and accepted it. The mark is not registered until the opposition period passes without a successful objection. Anything on these pages is the journal record as published; check the IPO’s own register before acting on it.

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