Intellectual Property:Passing off. time to register the trademark?
Intellectual Property:Passing off
Looks like its time to register a trademark.
so how much?
Legal fees for both Search AND Registration (unopposed): £1,440.00
VAT on legal fees for Search AND Registration: £252.00
Registry application fees (approx for US or EU trademarks as fees are paid in local currencies): £1,175.00
Registry fees payable on completion (approx for US or EU trademarks as fees are paid in local curre): £785.00
Total costs: £3,652.00
Online deposit required £95.00
(from somewhere on the web)
bah. stuff & nonsense
£82.50 from the patent office. see this link for details
Alex Beston said,
January 16, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
oh dear, I’m responding to my own post.
whoops I think £82.50 is a litlle low, about 2 or 300 hundred is correct. The price solicitors charge is roughly what it costs once you have to reapply. its more than vanity this trade marking – its a way of stopping people from stealing your ideas / way that youve found to trade under. I think its important. Trading standards, and I know this having been to the aberdeen city council. have a duty trading standards officer and were intertested in my case, but since I did not have a registered trademark, they couldnt help. The trademark is actually a legal entity and feels like its sort of owned by the state. After all, who pays for the state’s up keep? May as well look after those that feed you eh?