A trademark is a sign which can distinguish your goods and services from those of your competitors. Trademark is also referred to as “brand”. A Trdaemark should be distinctive for the goods and services you provide
In other words they can be recognised as signs that differentiates your goods or service as different from someone else’s.
You can register your trade mark to protect your brand or the name of your product or service. Trademark registration enables the owner of the Trademark to:
- Take legal action against anyone who uses his brand without permission
- Take legal action against counterfeiters
- Put the ® symbol next to his brand
- To claim the brand as his own and warn others against using it
- Sell and license his brand
In UK you cannot register any sign as a trademark if it consists of or contains an emblem that has protection under Article 6 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property which protects and prevents the registration and use of, trademarks that are identical with, or very similar to:
- armorial bearings
- flags and other State emblems
- official signs
- hallmarks
- other emblems
- abbreviations and names of international inter-governmental organizations
Intellectual Property Logium provides following services for the protection of Trademark in UK:
- Trademark Search
- Trademark Filing
- Responding Office Objections
- Trademark Oppositions
- Trademark Renewals
