Conditions for filing a trademark
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:28 am
To obtain trademark rights, your mark must be distinctive. Therefore, check the following before filing a trademark.
Your brand must be unique. A brand that is very similar to another brand may be rejected.
Your brand name should not be too generic. If you are going to start a flower store, then you cannot register the brand name Flower Shop.
Your brand name should not be misleading.
The complete legislation regarding trademark registration in the Benelux is too extensive to discuss in this post. If you want to know everything about this and if you like tough, legal stuff, you can find all the information on this subject in the Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property (BTIP).
How can you file a trademark internationally?
After you file your trademark in the BIOP trademark japan mobile numbers list register, you can register your trademark internationally at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This organization has 193 member countries.
WIPO tests your registration in each of these countries separately. Should there be any objections in a particular country, it will only affect that country and not others. Your application for trademark registration at WIPO is based on your already filed name at the BIOP. Your internationally registered trademark is also fixed for 10 years and this registration can also be renewed.
Register trademark within the European Union: Union trademark
So through the above steps, you can register your trademark in 90 countries around the world. However, it is also possible to file your trademark directly with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). With the Union trademark, a brand name gets protection for a period of 10 years in the E.U., after which you can also renew it again.
Your brand must be unique. A brand that is very similar to another brand may be rejected.
Your brand name should not be too generic. If you are going to start a flower store, then you cannot register the brand name Flower Shop.
Your brand name should not be misleading.
The complete legislation regarding trademark registration in the Benelux is too extensive to discuss in this post. If you want to know everything about this and if you like tough, legal stuff, you can find all the information on this subject in the Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property (BTIP).
How can you file a trademark internationally?
After you file your trademark in the BIOP trademark japan mobile numbers list register, you can register your trademark internationally at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This organization has 193 member countries.
WIPO tests your registration in each of these countries separately. Should there be any objections in a particular country, it will only affect that country and not others. Your application for trademark registration at WIPO is based on your already filed name at the BIOP. Your internationally registered trademark is also fixed for 10 years and this registration can also be renewed.
Register trademark within the European Union: Union trademark
So through the above steps, you can register your trademark in 90 countries around the world. However, it is also possible to file your trademark directly with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). With the Union trademark, a brand name gets protection for a period of 10 years in the E.U., after which you can also renew it again.