Trade Marks Act 1998 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Registration of Trade Marks
11. Claim to priority from other relevant overseas application
Feedback & supportThe Minister may, by order, confer on a person who has filed an application for the registration of a trade mark in a country or territory to which the Government has entered into a treaty, convention, arrangement or engagement for the reciprocal protection of trade marks, a right to priority, for the purpose of registering the same trade mark under this Act for some or all of the same goods or services, for a specified period from the date of filing of that application.
trade mark
“trade mark” means any sign capable of being represented graphically and which is capable of distinguishing goods or services dealt with or provided in the course of trade by a person from goods or services so dealt with or provided by any other person;
An order under this section may make provision corresponding to that set out in section 10 or such other provision as appears to the Minister to be appropriate.