How to register a trademark?

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Starting a new business is always a great adventure, but you must not get carried away by the excitement and correctly complete all the bureaucratic procedures that it entails. Today we are going to tell you how to register a trademark .

Steps to register a trademark
If your business is going to consist of the manufacture and distribution of a product or service, you will need to have a trademark and, to register it, you must do the following:

Trademark registration feasibility study
The first step that is carried out when you apply to register your trademark is the feasibility study. In this process, what is analyzed is that there are no other identical or similar trademarks on the market. It is also important that there are no two identical trademarks in the same field, for example, two beverage brands that also have the same trade name.

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This feasibility study is carried out by a lawyer belonging to austria number data Intellectual Property Registry who will be in charge of evaluating whether the trademark can be registered correctly and legally.

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Trademark registration application
This application must also be submitted by an attorney from the Intellectual Property Registry. Once submitted, an examiner from the Trademark Office will review all points of the application and if he finds any erroneous aspect, he will inform the person interested in registering the trademark so that he can modify the necessary fields and the trademark can move on to the next phase.

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When the next step is reached, a public notice is published that the trademark is to be registered and a three-month period will then begin in which any person may object to the registration of the trademark by presenting arguments . For example, it may happen that a person's own name is being registered and that person wants to appeal against this.

When the three-month period has elapsed without oppositions, or with the oppositions filed having been resolved, the trademark registration will then be officially granted by the Trademark and Patent Office.

Certificate of Registration
Finally, you only have to pay the trademark registration fees . In Spain, the amount to be paid is approximately 144.58 euros for a single category of products and services. However, if you want to use a trademark in more than one area, you will have to pay around 93.66 euros for each additional category in which you register the trademark.

Once you have paid the corresponding fee, you will have a period of ten years to exploit it. Once this period has elapsed, the person who owns the trademark may renew their rights over it indefinitely by paying a specific fee for this purpose.

How to choose a brand name?
On the website of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office you can find a very useful section where you can perform searches to quickly check if the trademark you want to use is already registered. You can also find out if there is a registered trademark that contains or begins with any of the words you have selected for yours. Although this search engine is a bit complex in appearance, we assure you that it is very useful and effective.