Do you look for optimal protection for your name or logo? Every entrepreneur usually positions his product or services in the marketplace. Many entrepreneurs have to use their trademark to secure name-awareness while promoting the unique properties of their product or service. It means if you register your trademark, the competitors can not profit from it.
If you are an entrepreneur, you invest your time, energy and money in your company. Your mission is to create a good name and economic value. This is presented in the trade name of your company, the name of your product or service or the logo. Or eventually all three. So it makes sense to protect the trade name, brand name and logo. If you decide to protect your trade name, brand name or logo, you can ask us for help. We are ready to help you with trademark registration in Slovakia.
If you want to apply to register a trademark, you can register both your trade name and the logo of your product, service or company as a trademark.
What is a trademark?
To answer this question, we need to define three phenomena:
1. Protection
Protection of a trademark is phenomenon that protects your trademark against competitors who might copy and misuse the trademark. If you officially registered your trademark, it is legally protected. Other entrepreneurs or competitors are not allowed to piggy-back on your success.
2. Rules
The registration of your trademark has to comply with the rules and is subject to statutory rules. If you apply for trademark registration, you have to check whether your trademark complies with these rules. If not, you will be required to decline the registration and the costs of registration will be for you non-refundable.
Our group of experts can check in advance whether your trademark complies with the rules.
3. Objection
Other parties can of course object to your application. This usually happens when your trademark is identical or very similar to a previously registered trademark for the same or similar products and services. Remember to check in advance whether your trademark does not already exist.
Why you should register your trademark?
When you register your trademark, you can:
- take legal action against anybody who uses your brand without your permission, without the exception of counterfeiters,
- add the ® symbol next to your brand – to present it’s yours and warn other people against using it,
- sell and license your brand.
The registration process takes approximately 4 months if no one objects it. Registered trademarks are valid 10 years.
Trademark registration in Slovakia
Registering a trade mark in certain country only protects your brand in this country. There are other procedures for registering international trade marks and trademarks within the European Union. If you plan to register a trademark in Slovakia, we will provide you with all important steps for trademark registration.