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A Trademark is a title which provides the exclusive right to use a specific sign for product identification or market service.

Trademarks can be words or word combinations, images, concepts, symbols, graphics, letters, figures, three-dimensional shapes (wrappings, boxes, product shapes or representations).

It has a national effect, and its validity is ten years from the date of its application and can be renovated for unlimited time.

Its value depends on it use (National, Community or International).

Its fame and renown can be an added value.

Community Trademark
Every sign that can be graphically represented, suitable to distinguish products or services from different companies. Community Trademark comes from the OAMI register, and it has effect upon the whole European Community, which nowadays covers 25 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakian Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Uniform Protection upon all the Community Countries through an only register and before an only Office: OAMI, and therefore, an only, unitary and reinforced right.

The validity of the Community Trademark is ten years from the date of its application, and can be renovated every ten years.

Free movement in all the territory without the need to demand the national register in every country.



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International Trademark
The application of an international registry now includes this list of countries of the Agreement and Protocol of Madrid. It entails a deposit procedure before the World Industrial Property Organization of Geneva (WIPO), after a trademark has been previously registered. In other words, after the register or application in the Trademarks Office of a given country, an international register can be obtained, and it can be effective in some countries of the Agreement of Madrid, or all of them.

According to this Agreement, to extend this international protection, the basic trademark must be assigned, but according to the Protocol, its application is enough.

The application of the international register must name the countries, within the Paris Union, to which the trademark can be extended.

This system offers to its owners the possibility to protect their trademarks in different countries, applying just in one office and in one language.

The international register is valid during ten years, and can be renovated every ten years.

The register has the same International effect as a National trademark registration.

Foreign Trademark
They are considered trademarks in the rest of the world and have a national result, according to the national legislation.

Should you be interested, please contact internacional@pt-bcn.com

Trademark types
Derivative Trademark
Collective Trad
Warranty Trademark
Well-known Trademark

Trade names
Every name can be graphically represented and represent a company (either an individual or legal company) in the commercial trade, which can be distinguished from the rest of the companies with same or similar activities.

 

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