The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 1993
The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Fees) Rules 1992 (S.I. 1992/1069) require the payment of a fee of 20 in relation to an application for conversion of a specification from the old (pre-1938) classification in Schedule 3 to the Trade Marks and Service Marks Rules 1986 to the new classification in Schedule 4 thereto. The Patent Office is desirous of encouraging more applications for conversions by the abolition of the fee so as to update its register, and these Rules abolish that fee.