Registration of trademarks

Trademarks are generally marks used to distinguish the services or goods of one manufacturer from the services or goods of another manufacturer. Trademarks can be: verbal images (a set of letters, a word, a word combination), an image (icon, picture) or a combination of an image and words. Trademark registration will help protect your intellectual property from fraudsters and competitors. This is one of the areas of activity of the representatives of our legal company “PRIKHODKO & PARTNERS”.

Thus, the trademark receives legal force, it has passed the appropriate registration and is considered as an official document of the product. Trademark – confirmation that the trademark is the intellectual property of a private person or company. For example, if a logo is registered, it cannot be used by competitors.

Trademark registration allows owners of companies and firms to publish data on the origin of products or services, information on differences from competitors’ offers, on quality, and trademarks can be used for advertising purposes.

Documents regulating the registration of trademarks

The manufacturer of one or another product must go through the trademark registration procedure in order for his product to acquire legal significance. All this is regulated by international treaties that are in force in Ukraine in relation to trademarks:

• Agreement on the International Classification of Services and Products for the Registration of Trademarks (Nice Agreement).
• Treaty on the Laws of Trademarks.
• Agreement on the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Agreement).
• Convention on the International Registration of Marks.

All the above documents and agreements have been ratified by Ukraine. As far as Ukrainian legislation is concerned, the registration of trademarks is governed by the Law of Ukraine No. 3689 “On the protection of rights to marks for goods and services”.

Peculiarities of trademark registration in Ukraine

Trademarks can be registered by a legal entity, an individual or a group of individuals. You can also entrust the process of trademark registration to the specialists of our law firm “PRIKHODKO & PARTNERS”.

One application is used to register one trademark.

The package of documents for the procedure consists of the following components:

1. Application for trademark registration.
2. Trademark image.
3. Detailed description of the trademark.
4. A detailed list of services and goods for which the applicant wishes to register a trademark or signs.

As in any other country, trademark registration in Ukraine is carried out in accordance with the Unified Qualification – Supplement to the Nice Agreement.

Classification allows you to clearly and quickly determine to which class the service (goods) belongs. The selected classes will be displayed on the certificate. In the future, protection will apply to specific services and goods, in clearly specified, specific classes. It is impossible to expand the list of classes after the application has already been submitted.

That is why you should trust professionals. Our specialists will select the most optimal list of groups that will allow maximum use of the trademark in the future. A very important stage is the correct compilation of the description of the sign (this is very relevant for combined trademarks). Depending on the specific trademark in question, additional materials and information may be used to complete the application.

The certificate of trademark registration is issued after the state registration of the mark. The certificate is received by the person who has the right to it. If it is about several persons, they receive one certificate. You can check the trademark in the State Register of Certificates of Ukraine for signs for services and goods. The register contains all the necessary information required for additional verification of trademarks.

The cost of trademark registration consists of the payment of all fees (for filing an application, issuing a certificate, etc.). The amount of fees is established by legislation. If several people act as applicants, the amount of state payments increases. We will help you calculate the exact cost of trademark registration.

In addition, the lawyers of our company “PRIKHODKO & PARTNERS” are engaged in:

• Forming and submitting an application.
• By searching and analyzing the designation for its similarity with previously registered trademarks.
• Conducting an accelerated examination.
• Conducting negotiations with the Patent Office.

We will help you register trademarks as quickly as possible. The key to our success is an individual approach to each client. Do you still have questions? Sign up for a consultation with our specialists!