The filling of application and registration of a trademark will be explained in several steps.
- Our cooperation begins with delivery of the power of attorney and information about your designation. To iniciate the application process we need:
- The original of the power of attorney, which gives the authorization to represent before the Intellectual property Office. The power of attorney needs to be signed and deliverd to our postal address. You can find the form here and the postal address here.
- The wording or the image of the given designation (in the case of visual designation, the requierements are the JPG format and the minimum size of te file is 300kb.
- The description of the area of your bussiness, which will indicate what particular products and services will be protected by the trademark.
- The next step is the research focused on identity and/or interchangeability of your designation in the databases of Slovak intellectual propety Office, World intellectual propety Office and European intellectual property Office, in the given classes of products and services.
- Evaluation of the research and recommendations for the form and the scope of protection – delivery of research report. Based on the research you will find out, if your designation is considered to be possible to register.
- The preparation of the list of products and services and its classficiation according to Nice classficiation of products and services. Based on the area of bussiness delivered by the client and the research report we comprise the official list of goods and services.
- The preparation adn filling of the application of the trademark. We oblige to prepare the research report with evaluation, the list of goods and services and the application not later than 4 bussiness days after the recieving of the signed power of attorney. The filling of the application will be done the next bussiness day after agreeing on the scope of protection based on the research report.
- The payment of the official fees according to Slovak law no. 145/1995 Z. z. about administrative fees.
- The monitoring of the case until the publication of the trademark. (The monitoring after the publication is a separately billed service based on the contract of mandat).
The trademark is valid for 10 years from the day of filling the application, whereas this period can be prolonged for another 10 year interval indefinite amount of times.
The services beyond the listed scope of services during or after the process of filling the application are payed separately, you can see the list of such services here.
