Your brand is a property and in this era of cut-throat
competition and ever-increasing brands, one has to protect their property. Since
you have put so much effort in expanding your business, developing customer
relationships and establishing a brand, it is imperative that you save your hard
work with a trademark.
What is a Trademark?
A trademark is a word, phrase, letter, number, sound, smell,
shape, logo, picture, aspect of packaging or a combination of these to
distinguish your products from your competitors and allows you to use the ®
mark.
A registered trademark, gives you the exclusive legal right to
use, license and sell it in the country where you have registered it. It
prevents unscrupulous operators from using your intellectual property.
How Much Do Trademarks Cost?
You can register your trademark by nominating your product or
service in a class (a class categorizes your trademark). for example, A
pharmaceutical company has to register under CLASS 5.
Use the links below for more trademark information and
registration forms:
Global Trademarks
Unfortunately, there are no global trade marks. Most countries
have their own Intellectual Property registers although many countries have
mutual agreements with other countries where trade marks registered in one
country are also recognized in the other one.
Service Marks
Service marks are the same as trademarks, except that they
identify and distinguish the source of a service rather than a product. In many
countries, a trademark is used to describe both.
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