Services
Trade mark registration
Trade mark law is complex, and without professional guidance, your application may be rejected. We can help. Brandability is a team of UK trade mark experts with legal and trade mark qualifications. We can help guide you through the process efficiently and cost-effectively.
Trade mark monitoring
Our trade mark monitoring service will ensure that you are informed of any companies attempting to register similar or identical trade marks to those you hold. We offer this service on both a national and regional basis. Where an attempt to register a similar or an identical trade mark is identified, we can then assist you in objecting to the registration and advise whether further action is necessary.
FAQs
A trade mark is something that helps to identify a brand, product or service of a business. Because a trade mark can be a valuable business asset, it must be protected to prevent others from using it to sell their own products or services. A trade mark can take many forms and may be simply the name of the business, product or service or can include:
- Letters
- Numerals
- Designs
- Images
- Colours
- Sounds
- Shapes (including 3D shapes)
- Movement
- Smells
To put it simply, if you do not register a trade mark you are putting your brand at risk. Someone else can use elements of what identifies your products or services or even register a trade mark for a name similar or identical to the one you are operating under. When you register a trade mark, you give yourself the tools to prevent someone else from using your brand indicators and to take legal action against imitators.
Copyright and trade marks both protect specific creations but typically apply to different types of work. Copyright protects intellectual or creative works, such as literature, music and art. On the other hand, trade marks typical protect commercial names, products, services, logos and other brand indicators.
There are several steps you need to go through when applying to register a trade mark. Brandability makes registering a trade mark simple, and you can do this online in just a few steps. There are three stages:
- Checking whether your brand is likely to be registered as a trade mark
- Applying to register the trade mark
- Responding to any objections to your trade mark registration
The Brexit transitional period has now ended, and as a result, there have been some changes to how EU trade mark rights are registered and enforced by UK businesses. Where you have a registered EU trade mark, it will have been cloned automatically creating comparable rights in the UK. For new applications, you will need to make separate applications to register an EU trade mark and a UK trade mark.