Trademark

Trademark Registration in England

Trademark registration in the UK is carried out through the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in the United Kingdom. Understanding the process and legal requirements is crucial for any business or individual seeking to establish a distinctive brand identity in the UK. Trademark registration is a valuable asset that ensures brand protection and recognition in the UK business market.

When you register your trademark, you have the right to use it throughout the UK for 10 years. After that, you can renew your trademark every 10 years.

Why is Trademark Registration Important in the UK?

The main reason for registering your trademark is quite obvious: trademark infringement. After years of building a customer base, reputation damage due to unauthorized sales of trademarked products by competitors and vendors has tragic consequences.

Registering your trademark with the UK patent office is a way to prevent others from using the same or similar logos and claiming ownership of your success. In a more depressing scenario, they could register the trademark as their own and put you in a difficult position when you want to advertise or expand your product. Only by registering your trademark do you have the right to take legal action against organizations or individuals who copy your logos and slogans.

Building your brand awareness

Good trademarks carry value. You only have to look at how third-party companies such as clothing manufacturers have made deals with large multinationals such as Coca Cola to use their logos on T-shirts to see that trademarks can be big business in their own right. Because your logo itself can be valuable, it's important to make sure that it can't be easily copied by people who don't offer your company any kind of kick-start.

Why Work with Export Partners?

Preparing and pursuing your trademark application can be a complex process. Whoever does it needs a lot of information about trademark law and how the registry works. If you have an agent, the IPO registrar will correspond with that person. If you cancel this arrangement, the office will have to contact you directly and there may be a breakdown in communication. You must also appoint a legal representative if you are not a UK citizen.

Beware of unregistered trademark agents! They are not authorized to represent applicants in the investigation of trademark applications. We carry out your Canadian trademark registration process with our expert and authorized law office. You can direct detailed questions about the process to us and get a return in a short time and register your trademark in the UK.

Process Map

Preliminary Research

We will check whether your trademark name has already been registered with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) by another applicant and whether there is a registered trademark with similar content.

Filing

We will submit your application to the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) together with an application form, your name and address, your trademark, the goods or services associated with the trademark and the fee.

Evaluation

Application evaluation by the IPO

(within 2 weeks)

Official Gazette Publication

Publication in the official trademark gazette, provided there are no objections to your application

(for 2 months)

Approval

If the application is not subject to an objection, your trademark will be registered after 2 weeks. In total, you can register your trademark within 3 months after the application.

Possible Objections

In case of an appeal;

The objecting party can be contacted,
Your application can be withdrawn
Your application can be legally defended.

Certificate

We will send you a registration certificate to confirm that your trademark is registered.

In the Later Process

For applications similar to your trademark, you can object if you are contacted.
Selling, marketing and licensing your trademark are among the privileges you will be granted.