The Unpredictability of Trademarks
In most cases, an experienced Trademark Attorney or IP Lawyer who’s had a chance to perform a proper trademark search will have a good idea as to whether the Examiner will raise objections. However, it’s impossible to know for sure, and the aim of this post is to give you a sense of why it’s hard to make black and white statements on how your trademark registrations will go.
Trademark Examination – What Happens
After your trademark application has been filed, it will automatically come up for examination by an IP Australia Trademark Examiner, usually within three to six months of filing. What happens next can be difficult to predict, but in this post, we’ll try to give you a sense of how things could go.