If you receive an adverse report from IP Australia about your trade mark registration, one way to resolve the issue is by providing ‘evidence of prior use’.

Providing ‘evidence of prior use’ can greatly assist your application to have your trade mark registered. It is a submission of evidence that demonstrates that your trade mark is already being recognised by consumers as an indicator of your business.

This submission of ‘evidence of prior use’ usually includes information about how your proposed trade mark has already been used and promoted within your business, demonstrating to IP Australia that it is a key, recognisable part of your business.

This fixed-fee package starts at $2500 + GST.

As part of the package, our expert lawyers will prepare submissions to IP Australia that demonstrate ‘evidence of prior use’ of your trade mark.

This process will involve phone calls with our lawyers to obtain your detailed instructions and get more information about your specific situation. From there, our lawyers will collate the evidence of prior use, draft the relevant legal submissions, and prepare a Statutory Declaration of Evidence of Use.

We’ll then provide you with the final documents for your approval, and we can make complimentary amendments to the final draft we provide to you.

As an online law firm, we eliminate the headaches of paying us by the hour and finding time to meet with a lawyer in person. We communicate via phone, email and cloud conferencing — whichever suits you! We know you’re busy, so we’re only a click away.

You’ll be guided through this process by our expert lawyers, who are Australian-qualified and were trained at leading law firms. They left the traditional corporate law sphere to help us make legal services better. Our lawyers specialise in technology, intellectual property, contract drafting, corporate and commercial law.

Our law firm operates completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in Australia. We work at The Commons Central – a cool co-working space in Chippendale, Sydney – but our lawyers often work flexibly across various locations.