7.0 Trademark Registration checklist


8.0 Trademark Registration checklist

Before registering a trademark it is important to plan ahead as trademarks may be refused.

This Checklist helps for successfully registering trademarks:

  1. Strategy

 

Are you sure that this is the correct mark?

Does it fit into your overall IP portfolio strategy?

 

 

  1. European or national

 

Shall your trademark be registered all over the EU or is it enough to register the mark on national level?

 

  1. European Union trademark

 

Can it be presented clearly and objectively?

 

Is it distinctive but not descriptive?

 

Have you checked if the same or a similar mark has already been registered?

 

  1. Goods and Services

 

Have you made a list of the goods you want to sell and / or the services you want to offer?

 

Have you checked which category of the nice classification they belong in?

 

  1. Ownership

 

You will have to provide the office with accurate information of the proprietor of the mark. Is this information available?

 

 


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