Evidence of Use with our legal team

If IPONZ is refusing to register your trade mark, section 18 of the Trade Marks Act provides that you need to provide evidence that you are using that trade mark for your business. This is known as evidence of use.

Providing ‘evidence of prior use’ can greatly assist your application to have your trade mark registered. It is a submission of evidence showing that consumers already recognise your trade mark 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 IPONZ that it is a key, recognisable part of your business.

This fixed-fee package starts at $1,200.00 + GST. As part of the package, our expert lawyers will prepare submissions to IPONZ that demonstrate evidence of prior use of your trade mark.

This process includes phone calls with our lawyers to obtain your detailed instructions and understand your specific situation. From there, our lawyers will collate the evidence of prior use and draft the relevant legal submissions.

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

Submit an enquiry on this page or click 'Get started'. One of our legal consultants will review it within 1 business day and get in touch to understand what you need.

Your consultant will then email you a fixed-fee quote setting out the cost, scope and timing. If you're happy with it, you can accept the quote and sign our engagement letter online.

Once you've accepted, one of our Australian-qualified lawyers will work with you to complete your project. They'll contact you by email or phone if they need anything.

We work online, so we can help wherever you are in New Zealand. Our team works remotely, mainly from Australia.

Your work is done by our Australian-qualified lawyers, who hold Australian practising certificates and specialise in business law. None of them are New Zealand lawyers or hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

Sprintlaw NZ Limited is a legal consultancy, not a law firm, and is not regulated by the New Zealand Law Society. We don't act in court or tribunal matters, conveyancing (including leases and business sales) or other reserved areas of work. Communications with Sprintlaw are unlikely to be protected by legal professional privilege. We still keep everything confidential under our engagement letter.