Protect your trademark from copying
Why Should You Register a Trademark?
Protection
Exclusivity
Financial benefits
Competitive advantage
How much would trademark registration cost?
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This is a group of goods or services covered by your trademark protection. For example: clothing is one class, advertising services another. If you are not sure, we will help you choose the right classes.
Preliminary price
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- Preparation and filing of the application
- Formal examination
- Search among registered trademarks
- Communication with the registration authority
- Monitoring until registration
* The exact price depends on your case. The offer is not binding.
Trademark services
What is it?
When you choose a registration feasibility assessment, our specialists conduct a search for prior trademarks, identify potential risks of opposition, and assess the likelihood of successfully defending your trademark registration in the event of an opposition or claim.
Why is this necessary?
A trademark must meet the absolute requirements and perform the main function of a trademark – to distinguish one manufacturer’s goods and services from another manufacturer’s. Our experts assess the suitability of the trademark and the probability of successful registration.
Duration
2-3 working days
What is it?
Trademark registration grants exclusive rights to use it in commercial activities. Our specialists analyse your specific situation and provide the most suitable trademark registration strategy in order to achieve the most cost-effective and strongest protection. We carry out the trademark registration actions promptly and administer the entire trademark registration process.
Why is this necessary?
By using an unregistered trademark, not only can you not prevent others from using it, but you also risk that the owner of an identical or similar registered trademark may demand that you cease using the mark. Trademark registration will help protect you from competitors. Whether your business is large or small, there may be competitors who want to compete unfairly: after verifying that you have not registered the trademark you are using, they may steal your trademark-in other words, they may register it in their own name or in the name of their affiliates. Trademark registration helps protect against copying. Sometimes, instead of creating their own trademark, competitors appropriate others’ ideas and use someone else’s trademark. With a trademark registration, you can successfully protect yourself against such unfair practices.
Duration
~ 6 months
What is it?
Our specialists monitor the validity terms of trademarks and inform you in good time of the need to renew them, and also prepare the documents for extending trademark protection. The exclusive intellectual property rights granted to the trademark owner are protected for 10 years. If the trademark continues to be used, the term can be renewed for as long as necessary.
Why is this necessary?
Renewing a trademark’s validity is essential, because if it is not done in time, restoring the trademark registration is no longer possible.
Duration
Registration renewal must be completed during the last year of the mark’s validity, and with a surcharge – within 6 months from the end of the registration’s validity.
What is it?
The purpose of trademark monitoring is to detect, at an early stage, any trademark that is identical or similar to your registered trademark and to have the later-filed trademark canceled by filing an opposition with the Patent Office.
The Patent Office does not conduct trademark examinations based on relative grounds; that is, it does not check whether a newly registered trademark is identical to or similar to a previously registered trademark. New trademarks that are identical or confusingly similar are often registered in the same field of activity, which may infringe upon the exclusive rights of the owner of the earlier trademark.
How is monitoring carried out?
All newly published trademarks in national and international trademark registers are monitored and compared with the trademarks under supervision. If a potentially conflicting similarity is noticed, the mark’s owner is notified and further actions are discussed.
Why is this necessary?
If an identical or similar trademark being registered is detected early, its
registration by filing an opposition with the State Patent Office.
If you fail to monitor the situation, conflicting trademarks will be registered and, sooner or later, will begin to be used. In such a case, you may not be able to detect their use in time; by then, you will have already suffered losses due to lost revenue; it will be more expensive and more difficult to negotiate the cessation of use of these trademarks (preparing and sending claims, drafting and concluding a settlement agreement, and in certain cases, an amicable settlement will not be possible, so you will have to go to court).
Duration
Trademark monitoring can be carried out throughout the entire term of the trademark registration.
What is it?
These are the possible trademark actions after registration. We carry out these actions and help you manage your trademark: transfer, pledge or grant licences to other parties to use your intellectual property or part of it in respect of a certain territory or goods. We register changes to the trademark owner’s name or address in the official registers.
Why is this necessary?
By transferring, pledging or granting licences to others to use your intellectual property, you ensure the possibility of gaining financial benefit.
What is it?
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) together with the European Commission annually implements the SME Fund project – financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their intellectual property. Support is provided in the form of vouchers, which must be received before submitting an application. We advise on whether your company meets the conditions and help coordinate the receipt of support with registration actions.
Reimbursed:
- up to 90% of the intellectual property pre-determination service (IP Scan)
- up to 75% of trademark and design fees at EU and national level
- up to 50% of trademark and design registration fees outside the EU
- up to 75% of patent fees at EU and national level
Duration
Support is provided on the basis of an annually renewed call, for a limited period and a limited budget. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, and funds for the most popular areas often run out before the end of the call itself. Contact us – we will check whether support is currently available and to what extent.
The IP Scan service
„IP Scan“ (IP pre-diagnostics service) or simply an intellectual property portfolio audit-an assessment of a business’s intangible assets (trademarks, designs, inventions , etc.) to identify and help increase the value of your existing intellectual property and develop the intellectual property management strategy best suited to your business.
Intellectual property experts providing this service will conduct a detailed analysis of your business model, products/services, and expansion plans; after assessing your competitive environment, they will prepare a customized proposal or strategy for managing your intellectual property.
This is particularly important if you are considering business expansion in the future (mergers, acquisitions, or seeking investors)-we conduct a comprehensive due diligence review of your company.
An intellectual property portfolio audit can help not only identify and assess external and internal risks, but also protect against or avoid them in a timely manner (for example, by entering into confidentiality agreements with employees, as well as production and licensing agreements, etc.).
You will protect yourself against situations where the rights of third parties may be infringed.
Intellectual property is part of any company’s image and identity, so intellectual property management ensures a transparent reputation for your company.
What is a trademark?
Any sign or combination of signs that helps to distinguish some goods or services from others: a word, drawing, number, colour, emblem, slogan, product shape, sound or movement.
Trademark Registration
Once the requirements are met, an application is filed. After the Patent Office carries out its examination and the opposition period has passed, the mark is registered – protection lasts 10 years and can be renewed.
What can be a trademark?
A trademark can be any sign or combination of signs that helps to distinguish one person’s goods or services from another’s: a word, slogan, logo, symbol, shape, colour, sound, movement or a combination of these.
Scope of trademark protection
A trademark is a sign or combination of signs that helps to distinguish your goods or services from others: a word, drawing, number, colour, slogan, shape, sound or movement. Over time it becomes a recognisable symbol of your business.
Territorial protection
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