Every entrepreneur holding a firm position in the market, at some point, is faced with the need to create his own trademark, under which he will produce products or provide services. But one idea of what its image will be is not enough - it must be protected by the state, and therefore be patented.
Instructions
Step 1
Building a reputation for himself, a businessman must be sure that unscrupulous market actors cannot use his honest name, so he should attend to patenting his trademark, which will become an emblem and a recognizable feature of his products. Registration is carried out by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, located at the address: Moscow, Berezhkovskaya embankment, 30, building 1. The official website of Rospatent: www.rupto.ru.
Step 2
Having received a certificate confirming his right to own a trademark, an entrepreneur can safely sue if there are signs of illegal copying. The protection of such a right begins from the moment the application is submitted, which is very important, since the term for its consideration reaches a year.
Step 3
The first stage in the registration of a trademark is its creation. It is compiled in color and contains a drawing or an alphanumeric designation, or both. The image should not be an advertisement for the quality of the product or repeat its appearance. Many brands have already been patented, therefore, so that full duplication or partial similarity with existing logos does not become a reason for returning the application, it is necessary to search through the Rospatent database, and not only Russian, but also international emblems become its objects.
Step 4
Having received the search results and, if necessary, corrected your trademark, you can start writing an application and sending it directly to the Federal Service or by fax with the subsequent submission of the original. Such haste is sometimes useful when you need to urgently secure your rights to the emblem.
Step 5
The application must contain a clear description of the trademark with an indication of its structural features and their meaning, decoding of abbreviations and transliteration of the Latin alphabet. Next, the numerical category of the product and its description are written. So, clothes belong to class 25. The document must contain a full image of the trademark, and if it is three-dimensional, then in three projections.
Step 6
The application is accompanied by six additional cards with the emblem, duplicated in sizes 8 * 8 cm, and a receipt for payment of the state duty. After a long wait, a letter comes with the result, and if it is positive, then another fee should be paid for issuing a certificate. A trademark patent is valid for 10 years. A year before the end of the line, it must be extended.
