INFORMATION

• Necessary Documents and Data 
• Schedule of charges
• You have a trademark. What's next?
• Legislation (the extract)
• Articles

Name of the company, product, services, design element, logo, slogan, label and package may be registered as trademarks. The owner of exclusive rights on trademark can be a legal entity or natural person engaged in business activities.

Trademark registration implicates examination of the mark at the Patent Office. In case of favorable decision of the examination, Certificate of registration is issued and it confirms priority date of the trademark, exclusive right on it regarding goods and services, mentioned at the Certificate.

The list of goods and services is mentioned in the application and classified according to the World Classification of goods and services (The Nice Classification).

Please note! This list is rather important for registration and its further use of the trademark. Classification is carried out by our Patent Attorneys on the basis of your application.

Registration of the trademark shall be valid for ten years and in the course of the last 10th year of trademark validity you may renew it each time for the next 10 years. There is no need to pay annual fee to keep trademark valid.

Nowadays it takes 12-18 months to register a trademark at the Patent Office and includes the following stages:

• The formal examination takes 1 month from the day of filing an application to the Patent Office and providing with all necessary documents. By the end of this stage the Official Filing Receipt is issued; 
• The substantial examination is conducted within 12-16 months from the filing date, upon which the Official Action (a Decision or an inquiry) is issued;
• A trademark is registered in the State Trademark Registry within 2 months in case of the positive decision of the examination and the Certificate of registration is issued. 

Hence, a trademark owner can use his trademark and prohibit other do it. A trademark should be registered at the Russian Patent Office for you could get exclusive rights on the trademark.

Please note! Protection of trademark rights can be stopped before the appointed time in regard of all goods or part of goods as a result of uninterruptedly trademark disuse within any three years from its state registration. Use of a trademark by a license holder will be enough to avoid annulment of the trademark registration. Trademark can be taken as exploitable one if it is used in advertising, printed publications, official forms, signboards, demonstrations of goods at exhibitions or fairs held in the Russian Federation, on condition there is a good reason for trademark disuse on goods and/or packages.