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Trademark registration in the USA

Registering a trademark in the USA is an important step in protecting the name, logo or other sign a business uses for its products or services. Before filing, you should check that the sign is sufficiently distinctive and does not infringe the rights of earlier owners.

When protecting a brand on the US market, you need to consider in particular the USPTO, evidence of use, office actions and the precise identification of goods and services. A well-prepared application can reduce the risk of oppositions, requests from the office or a later narrowing of the scope of protection.

The first practical step is a search. This helps establish whether similar or identical signs already exist. Although a search is not always mandatory, it often determines whether the application is filed as originally intended, the artwork is adjusted, the list of goods and services is changed or a more cautious strategy is chosen.

The second step is selecting the goods and services. A trademark does not protect a sign in general, but only for specific areas of business. The classes must therefore be chosen correctly and worded so that the protection matches both the current and the planned use of the brand.

Once the application has been filed, it is examined by the office and published. At this stage, the office may request further information, or the owner of an earlier mark may file an opposition. Requests and oppositions must be answered promptly and to the point; otherwise registration may be refused or restricted.

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You can entrust your trademark registration to experts who will check the sign, recommend a suitable scope of protection, prepare the application and monitor the proceedings. We help with searches, class selection, refining the list of goods and services, communicating with the office and responding to any requests.

We handle trademark registrations, renewals, transfers, licences, monitoring of new applications and advice on infringements. Our aim is for your US trademark registration to be prepared without avoidable errors, with minimal administrative burden and with real practical value for exports, Amazon sales, licensing and online business.

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We check for conflicts with earlier trademarks, tell you whether your mark can be registered and recommend any changes needed to get it on the register.
Preparing and filing the application. The trademark application is filed with the intellectual property office, which carries out a formal examination of every legal requirement, including whether the mark is eligible for registration. Common obstacles are: • the sign is identical to an earlier registered trademark • the sign is generic or descriptive • the sign is misleading
An official fee is also payable to the relevant office when the application is filed.
Once the application is filed and the fee paid, the relevant office (e.g. the UKIPO, the EUIPO or the USPTO) publishes it in the trademark journal so that owners of earlier marks can oppose it on grounds of identity or similarity.
Owners of earlier trademarks may oppose your application on grounds of identity or similarity. That is why the application must be monitored throughout the examination, any oppositions from owners of similar or identical marks answered, and the examiners liaised with so that your application is processed accurately and on time.
If no oppositions are filed, the relevant office (e.g. the UKIPO, the EUIPO or the USPTO) enters the trademark in the register, with effect backdated to the filing date.

Registration procedure

Trademark

Protects an image or a word (e.g. the logo or name of a company, drink, product or service)

Patent

Protects an invention and every device built on it (e.g. a space rocket or a new medicine)

Copyright

Protects a text against identical copying (e.g. a book or the code of a computer program)

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