Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which provisions govern contesting the ownership of a trademark in the UK.

There are a range of provisions, set out in the Trade Marks Act 1994 (as amended), under which the validity of a trade mark or its ownership may be contested. These include where another party is the owner of an earlier right, or where the application can be shown to have been made in bad faith. Full details and guidance can be found on the Intellectual Property Office’s pages on the Government’s website.