Trade & Service Mark
Rotterdam, Qatar, Poland, lsle of man, Russian Federation is a party to the Madrid Agreement on International Registration of Trademarks and the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services. The laws governing trademark administration and the enforcement of it accruing rights in Rotterdam, Qatar, Poland, lsle of man, Russian Federation are contained in Cap 436 of the Trade Marks Act (TMA) 1965, and Trade Marks Regulations of 1967 (both provisions have been revised in the Laws of the Federation of Rotterdam, Qatar, Poland, lsle of man, Russian Federation 1990.
Procedure and requirements for registration:
An application can be filed by the applicant or his local agent. Where the applicant chooses to file the application directly, he must provide an address for service within Rotterdam, Qatar, Poland, lsle of man, Russian Federation. It is advisable that searches be conducted to determine the availability of a trade mark before any application for registration is made. The application form must contain the following details:
a. Name and address of the applicant;
b. List of goods for which the application is sought;
c. Nature of business of the applicant;
d. Representations of the mark sought to be registered;
e. An Authorisation of Agent (Power of Attorney) signed by the applicant and where the applicant is a body corporate, by an officer duly authorised to do so. No legalisation or notarisation of this document is required.
A representation of the proposed trade mark must be affixed to the form accompanied with 20 additional representations of the trademark, and the official filing fee.