Register your logo at the Patent and Trademark Office
If you've started a business or are a freelancer and you have your own logo on your stationery, you should think about getting it protected. To do this, you first have to register it.
You can add your own logo to the German Patent and Trademark Office to be protected as a trademark. This can be very useful, as your own logo contributes to the recognition value of your company over the years and thus also represents an asset.
Describe the logo precisely
- Your logo is protected when it is entered in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office. Thereafter, as the brand owner, you have the sole right to use your logo for your products or services.
- To register your logo, you must register it as a trademark with the German Patent and Trademark Office. However, it does not check whether the brand already exists, so you should research this yourself in advance. You can do such research online in DPMAregister carry out.
- After registration, it will be clarified whether all the necessary information is available. In the case of a logo as a figurative mark, this also includes a twofold identical graphic representation.
- Make absolutely sure that you register exactly the image that you are using as the logo. Because after the application has been received by the German Patent and Trademark Office, the registered logo or the registered trademark can no longer be changed.
- If you use a colored logo, it is not enough, e.g. B. specify the RAL number, but you must also specify the literal color names (blue, green, red etc.).
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The registration fees
- If you have a brand or If you register a logo, you generally pay a fee of 300 euros; if you register electronically, the fee is 290 euros.
- The registration fee includes the fee for three different classes of goods and services. The scope of protection of the brand is determined by these classes.
- If you want to protect your logo for other service classes, you pay an additional fee of 100 euros for each additional class when you register.
Protecting a trademark can be very rewarding. Especially if you have a logo with a high recognition value, you should have it protected.
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