KRS Law Firm · Intellectual Property
Want to Register a Trade Mark? We Will Handle It for You
Our firm provides a full range of trade mark protection services.
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What Is a Trade Mark?
A trade mark is a sign, usually a word, a combination of words and graphics, or a graphic, used in business to identify an undertaking’s goods or services. It helps distinguish the business from its competitors and make it recognisable.
The protection described here concerns signs registered by the competent authority: the Polish Patent Office for national registrations or the European Union Intellectual Property Office for EU registrations.
Registration gives the business the exclusive right to use the registered sign in a specified territory throughout the protection period, which lasts ten years and can be renewed for further ten-year periods.
Obtaining a registered trade mark helps reduce infringement risks and makes enforcement easier if infringement occurs. This applies not only to using the mark to name goods or services or in conventional advertising, but also to use in internet domains and online campaigns such as SEO and Google Ads.
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How Can We Help?
- Trade Mark Protection.
- Explaining Your Rights as a Trade Mark Owner.
- Protection Against Infringement.
Our trade mark protection services include in particular:
- Assessing registrability, including checking absolute grounds for refusal and distinctiveness against existing registrations and applications in Polish and EU databases.
- Handling national, EU and international registrations, and working with foreign representatives before patent offices worldwide.
- Renewing protection and updating registers.
- Handling contentious and court proceedings concerning trade mark infringement or unfair competition.
- Preparing legal opinions on trade marks;
- Drafting trade mark assignment and licence agreements.
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Tell us about your matter — we will analyse it and suggest a practical solution. There is no charge for your initial enquiry, and we will usually respond on the same working day.