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SRA No. 641612 · Solicitor of England & Wales
Western LegalUK · EU · International
Insights · 3 min read · 23 July 2026

How fast can a UK trademark be filed? 48 hours, done properly.

There are two clocks on every trademark: the one you control, and the one you do not. Most providers are slow on the first and blame the second.

The clock you control: instruction to filing

Drafting a specification and filing at the UKIPO is days of work being sold as weeks. This practice files within 48 hours of instruction: conflict search first, specification drafted by a solicitor, application submitted. Your priority date, the date that decides who wins if someone files something similar, is secured that fast. Every day unfiled is a day someone else can get there first.

The clock you do not: UKIPO examination

After filing, the UKIPO examines the application and, if accepted, publishes it for a two-month opposition period before registration. No provider controls that timetable, and anyone implying otherwise is selling you weather. What a good adviser controls is arriving at examination with a specification drafted to pass it first time.

Fast is a discipline, not a rush

Speed here does not mean skipped checks; the free conflict search happens before anything is filed. It means no queue, no '3 to 5 business days' to hear back, and a practice built remote-first so the work starts the day you instruct. Written replies within 24 hours, filings in 48. The fee is £555 all-inclusive, fixed in writing first.

FIXED FEES, FAST

Every matter above is delivered at a fixed fee agreed in writing before you pay, with a written reply within 24 hours. Send your enquiry.