Can i trademark my name uk [You Asked]

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How much does it cost to trademark a name UK?

It costs Â£170 to register a single trade mark in one class. It costs Â£50 for each additional class if you pay up front. If you're making a series application the first 2 versions of the trade mark are included in the fee. You then pay Â£50 for each additional version of your trade mark, up to a maximum total of 6.

Can you trademark your personal name UK?

Can I register my own name as a trade mark? There are no rules that prohibit registration of personal names in the UK, except for names of members of the Royal Family. The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) permits applications for trade marks which include first names, surnames or both.

Is it free to trademark a name UK?

How much does it cost to trademark a name? In the UK, the starting point is Â£170 for filing in one class and Â£50 for filing in each additional class. If you work with an Intellectual Property specialist (which we would recommend) you will also need to pay the professional fees.

Can I trademark my own name?

If the name is a personal name you may use it a trademark, as long as a namesake does not beat you to the punch, meaning that your proposed personal name would not cause a likelihood of confusion with a similar name already in use for related goods or services.

How long does UK trademark last?

Trade marks must be renewed every 10 years. You can renew a trade mark in the 6 months before it expires and up to 6 months afterwards.

How long does a trademark last?

A federal trademark lasts 10 years from the date of registration, with 10-year renewal terms. Between the fifth and sixth year after the registration date, the registrant must file an affidavit to state that the mark is still in use.

What Cannot be a trademark?

Under the Trademarks Act, A commonly used or accepted name of a chemical element or a chemical compound cannot be given a trademark registration. A chemical declared by the WHO which acquires international non-proprietary names can also not be registered.

What happens when you trademark a name?

Registering a trademark entitles the owner to exclusive rights to use the name in connection with the class of goods or services for which the name is registered, and and makes it clear who the owner of the name actually isâ€”all on a national level.

What happens if I use a trademarked name?

Using a registered trademark without permission from the owner can lead to a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Can I register trademark myself?

Any layman who wants to register a trademark can apply himself. But when the practical applicability is considered, appointing an attorney will ease the process to register a trademark. Certain procedures are to be followed to apply for a trademark. An application is filed.

How do I trademark a brand name UK?

Once you've established what you want to trademark and the classes you wish to register in, you can apply to the UK Intellectual Property Office. You can register online with the UKIPO or trademark a name using Form TM3 via post. Expect the process to take around four months in total if there are no objections.

Can you trademark a name without a business?

You can't register a trademark for non-business purposes. You can only trademark a brand name that you're using in business or that you intend to use in business in the near future.

Is it better to trademark or copyright a name?

A trademark can protect your name and logo in case someone else wants to use them for their own purposes. Also, you cannot really copyright a name, since copyright protects artistic works. This is exactly why you need to have a trademark that protects your company's intellectual property, such as your logo.

Is it worth trademarking a name?

Protect Sales: Registering your business name for a trademark protects your sales by preventing consumer confusion. For example, if another company uses the same or a similar name to yours and sells a similar product, customers might think they're buying from you instead of your competitors.

Can you copyright your face?

Many wonder, â€œCan I trademark my face?â€ Unfortunately, the immediate answer is no. Copyright is only valid for man-made creative ventures. The creative work must be a product of deliberate effort through creativity and conscious choices.

What words Cannot be trademarked UK?

be offensive, for example contain swear words or pornographic images.
describe the goods or services it will relate to, for example the word 'cotton' cannot be a trade mark for a cotton textile company.
be misleading, for example use the word 'organic' for goods that are not organic.

What is a dead trademark UK?

A trade mark may also be considered dead if it hasn't been renewed and the period of restoration has expired. Just because a mark is listed as 'dead', doesn't mean that it is available. Someone may be using the mark, or accruing goodwill and recognition under the mark, so common law rights may apply.

Can you have two trademarks with the same name?

The short answer is, â€œit depends.â€ It depends on (1) Whether the other business is in the same industry; (2) Whether the other business is in the same geographical market; (3) Who was using the mark first; and (4) Who registered the trademark first.

What are the three types of trademarks?

What you'll learn: Arbitrary and Fanciful Trademarks. Suggestive Trademarks. Descriptive Trademarks.

Can you lose a trademark if you don't protect it?

If you don't enforce your trademark, you risk losing reputation, business, sales, customers, and more to the infringer. There's also a concept in trademark law called abandonment. Generally, if you don't use your mark for three years or more, it's considered abandoned.

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Comment by Gayle Erbentraut

registration certificate please find enclose your trademark registration certificate for your trademark detailed above hey everyone thank you so much for clicking yet another video and welcome if you're new my name is teddy g and this channel is all about me taking you guys along for the journey with me as i build this cloning brand if you're new here please guys consider subscribing i upload videos twice weekly and i'm actually relatively consistent so please consider subscribing so i have a business mentor and when my mentor first came across my brand and its name the first thing he said to me was make sure you get that name and that logo trademarked and so i did and i did it successfully by myself no legal experience no experience in trademarking whatsoever i just went on the gov website and i did it myself and in this video i'm going to be talking to you guys about how i did that the process and all that kind of jazz so let's get into it so i trademarked my brand name and its logo using the gov website there's a whole host of things on that website it's a massive website and on there as well you can trademark and protect your intellectual property and it was a relatively simple process that i feel like anyone could do and for those of you that may not know what trademarking is it's basically a process that you can do in order to protect your intellectual property so you can protect the name of your brand you can protect your logos you can protect certain kinds of patents that sort of things so that's what trademarking is as a whole it cost me 170 pounds to do at the time which is pretty expensive especially when you're starting out but it's worth it in my opinion but i'm gonna touch on that later so the first thing i did when i wanted to actually trademark my brand name is i went onto the golf website and i searched to see whether there was any brands or companies out there that had a similar name especially in a similar class to the one that i was about to trademark in so on the golf website you can actually like see a whole database of all the different names and logos that have been registered for a trademark in the uk or have been attempted to be registered so when i made my search i searched over all the classes and a class is basically a description or scope of the goods or services that you're looking to trademark so for example class 25 is clothing so clothing headwear and footwear so when i did search over all the classes one trademark did actually come up and it did rattle me a little bit because i didn't understand why it came out because it didn't have anything similar to anything that i wanted to do and it was under the class of fitness and body cellulite and fitness gym or something along those lines and the company was actually based in france so this did rattle me a bit because i was thinking oh my gosh like why has this come up is the name similar i didn't quite understand but still i was like you know what i'm just gonna go ahead and do a bit more research and look into actually trademarking my brand name anyway despite the fact that something did actually come up the next thing i did was i got a little bit nosy so obviously i'm aware of a lot of different brands especially small brands from instagram from doing pop-ups and stuff like that and i actually went on there and i researched all those small brands to see whether they had actually trademarked their buy logo logo you know their band logo or their like brand name and quite a few that i knew came up and they had registered and all was scared and i was like oh my gosh so this is actually a thing that people do like i thought i was going in there just being you know like all like what i mean not knowing that this is actually a thing that most brands do but what then triggered my next line of research is when i researched one particular brand they had registered for a trademark but he had been rejected and i didn't even know like things like that could happen and i didn't know that on the database you will be able to see what trademarks have been rejected what trademarks have been submitted and withdrawn all of it stays on this public database so when i saw that that particular brand had been rejected it sparked me to do a bit more research into why trademarks get rejected because i was like i don't want to spend 170 pounds for my trademark to be rejected and i know that that 170 is non-refundable so that's the price of the application like once you make that application that money is gone it's gone i also wanted to make sure that what i was trademarking wasn't gonna potentially commit any of these offenses that might not let it qualify for trademarking so upon my research i'm gonna share with you guys some of the things that may potentially get a trademark rejected so obviously like the bait one would be if your trademark is too similar to another thing that's trademarked so that's the bait one obviously you can't trademark something that's already been trademarked you can't trademark something that isn't distinctive so it doesn't have a distinctive word it doesn't have a distinctive logo but i feel like this is a little bit ambiguous because what is distinctive so that is another reason why your trademark could get rejected and also you can't trademark something that would be in the best interest of the public to be able to use and i'm guessing this would be something along the lines of like you could trademark clothing for example because a lot of clothing brands call their clothing brand like the name of their brand and then clothing so then if you trademark clothing it means those people can't use clothing i believe that's what they mean by you can't trademark things that are in the best interest of the public to be able to use and also you can't trademark things that are too generic again really ambiguous but that's one of the things that came up when i done my research after i carried out that research i was pretty confident that my brand name and logo didn't commit any of these offenses so i did decide to proceed and go on so i know for a fact that if you're looking to trademark anything make sure you carry out as much research as possible especially if you're looking to do it yourself so once i was happy and i felt like i had enough information i went ahead and processed my application to register the name of my brand and two logos and i registered it under two classes so obviously the clothing class and i can't actually remember the other class i registered it under but you know it made sense to me why i registered it under another class as well so i completed the application in august of 2018 and typically it takes about four months or three to four months for them to review your application and in this time people can come along and like contest it so after going through that entire process my trademark was and the correct term is filed registered it was put on the register in november of 2018 so that was approximately three months so it took about three months for my trademark to be accepted and i've got this like thick thick like letter with al

Thanks for your comment Gayle Erbentraut, have a nice day.
- Vince Feigenbaum, Staff Member

Comment by bosticar

what's going on everyone welcome back to the channel in this video we're going to be talking about how to register a trademark i'm not a trademark specialist or professional and if you want to consult a professional then i'd recommend you do that but i have registered trademarks myself for my business and i'm in the process of registering another one now i'm going to take you through step by step of how to register a trademark in the uk everything that you need to do to do that how difficult it is how much it costs i'm going to go through step by step registering a new trademark which you will be able to follow along with and see exactly as i do if you've got any questions on anything i've got going on in this video please leave them below in the comments and i'll get back to you as soon as possible if you're interested in any sort of this material please consider liking and subscribing to the channel i talk a lot about increasing your income starting and growing online businesses and everything that goes along with that so whether you're selling products on amazon whether you're doing print on demand shopify stores or you're manufacturing and selling your own products having a trademark to protect your products your brand long term is going to see you well it's going to fend off any competitors it's going to allow you to sell and license your brand for other third parties to use in which you'll receive a royalty and it's also going to allow you to take legal action on anyone that you see or find which is trying to counterfeit your goods and use your name to generate businesses which they haven't managed to achieve on their own if you've been subscribed to the channel for a while you'll know that my first amazon fba product which i'm currently doing a relaunch of at the moment this was the first trademark that we actually purchased and now own one of the words in our description for the product on amazon we use the word shavette in the description some guy in germany actually owned the trademark to that he put an infringement on our amazon account our amazon account got suspended and we actually lost quite a lot of money in lost sales because our amazon account was offline so it is really important not only to register a trademark for your brand but also anything that you put online whether it's in the product description whether it's in the images or videos or anything that you do make sure that any word that looks like it could be trademarked that you search it and you check it out and make sure that you're completely clear before you go forward because otherwise you will find out the hard way just like we did so the first step in the process is really to determine what the trademark class is that your trademark is going to fall into in the uk there are 45 different trademarks for goods and services nor to 35 is for goods and 35 to 45 is for services you can find this information out pretty easily and when you get into the trademark process it will take you through the search function and allow you to type in what you want to search as your trademark and show you some of the potential classes that you can select so i'm going to jump into my computer and we're going to apply for a trademark right now so the first thing you want to do is to just google register trademark uk gov go on to the government website i will leave a link directly to this below in the video description you then want to scroll down this page and click you don't want to click on apply to register a trademark roll down here please feel free to read all of this information i'm just going to rush through it a little bit because i've done it before click apply so you will be applying as the registered trademark owner if you've got a solicitor or a trademark specialist then they will probably click on here for you but in this instance we're just going to do it ourselves as i said i'm not a specialist and if you do feel that you want us consult a specialist then please go for it but i'm just showing you this information because this is how i've done it if you want to follow along then you can or if you've got any questions leave them in the comments and i'll do my best to help you out you'll first come to this page and i would recommend that you just click check so really you want to check first that you can actually register the trademark before you move forward as it's 170 pounds to register your trademark under one class and then an additional 50 pounds for every other class that you want to add your trademark to that this will make a lot more sense in a minute but just keep that in mind for now obviously you don't want to apply for a trademark for nike because it's obviously already gone and your trademark application is going to get refused and you're going to waste your money so you want to search to see that your trademark is available before you go through to the next stage of the process so we're now on this page which basically says what what type of trademark you want to apply for you can apply for a logo you can apply for a word or a phrase or both i would recommend and a lot of other people have said this as well that a word or a phrase is a lot stronger this is because you could have a logo with the word written in the logo but you wouldn't officially own the trademark to that word rather than if you've got the word or the phrase trademarked on its own it's a you're going to have a lot stronger legal grounds so i've been told check this out for yourselves on any legal action or infringement cases that you want to put forward to other people who are using or counterfeiting your goods so please keep that in mind when you go through the process so in this in this instance we're just going to trademark the word or a phrase by clicking on some of these information you'll also see a bit more about what i mean by that so this is where you're going to be typing in which trademark you want to actually search so i'm just going to type in because you know that's exactly what you want to do after you've watched this to the very end so please feel free to watch some of these videos which will explain it a lot more easily i'm just going to rush through it as i said to get to the end to show you guys how to do it and how simple it really sort of can be as i said before this is the standard fee which includes one class the additional fee which is an additional 50 pounds for every new class that you want to add it to so this is where you select your goods and services so whether your brand's going to be a t-shirt brand whether you're going to be manufacturing computers whether you're going to be creating software or whether you're going to be providing marketing or advertising services for other businesses this is where you would type in what sort of service or good you're going to likely produce or manufacture so say in this instance that we want to register a trademark for a clothing brand we would just type in clothing and that is going to come up with class 25 clothing footwear headwear you can then go through and select multiple different terms for everything withi

Thanks bosticar your participation is very much appreciated
- Vince Feigenbaum

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I've studied fluid statics at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth and I am an expert in cyborg anthropology. I usually feel jealous. My previous job was horticultural worker supervisor I held this position for 9 years, I love talking about scrapbooking and quilting. Huge fan of Chris Noth I practice snow skiing and collect games.

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