UK Trade Mark Applications Weekly (IPO Journal Watch)

Every UK trade mark application published for opposition — UK filings and international registrations designating the UK, from the Intellectual Property Office's weekly Trade Marks Journal (Open Government Licence v3). Application number, mark text and type, Nice classes and goods/services, applicant organisation and country, representative firm, filing and priority dates, journal issue, publication date and the two-month opposition deadline. Rolling 52 weekly issues, refreshed the morning after each Friday's journal.

What people use it for

• Trade mark watching — find new applications similar to your mark (by word, class or goods) while the opposition window is still open, instead of paying a watch service £180–320 per mark per year.
• IP firms and attorneys — weekly prospect lists of applicants filing without a representative, by class or country.
• Brand and market research — who is filing what in a class; new entrants by sector.
• Compliance and onboarding — check a counterparty's recent filings.

Output (one item per published application)

application_number, journal_number, publication_date, opposition_deadline, mark_text, mark_type, classes, class_count, goods_services, applicant_type, applicant, applicant_country, representative, filing_date, priority_date, origin, international_registration, series_count, section, journal_url, register_url

Data posture

Public-register data reduced to organisation level: an applicant or representative name is kept only when it is an organisation; individual applicants are recorded as "individual or unincorporated" without a name, addresses are reduced to the country, and mark images are never stored. Pay per result; set Maximum results to control spend. Data from gankdat.com (REST API, MCP server, weekly change feed).