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Trademarks

Your name, brand and marks are just as important as the foundations you build them on. A trademark will distinguish you from the competition. Turner Little have decades of expertise registering trademarks, the safest way to get exclusive rights to your name. Our experience will help you get it right first time.

Exclusive rights mean that no one else has the right to use the mark on their goods or services, or in their marketing. We will monitor your critical assets vigilantly and react quickly to potential discrepancies and threats.

Trademark Search More Details £250.00 Buy Now
Registration of Trademark (One Class) More Details £350.00 Buy Now
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What is a trademark?

By definition, a trademark is a sign that differentiates one traders goods and services from another. Trademarks can be words, logos, pictures or a combination of these. They are used so that a product or service that one trader provides can be recognised by customers and can’t be imitated by others.

To register a trademark, the mark must be:

• Distinctive for the goods and service that you are applying for
• Not deceptive or contrary to law or morality
• Not similar or identical to any earlier marks for the same products or services

There are 45 trademark classes which cover all goods and services. For example, class 25 covers clothing, footwear and headgear. If you were to trademark a brand name under class 25, it would prevent all other traders from producing any item of clothing, footwear or headgear that appears in that class from brandishing your name or logo.

If another trader decided to use your name in class 15, musical instruments, there would generally be nothing to stop them from doing so. However, you can trademark your goods and services in as many classes as you require, so long as you have a genuine use for claiming that class.

Why trademark?

When you trademark, you protect yourself from unauthorised use of your mark. Without a trademark, a company imitating you could cause you loss of business or damage the reputation of your trade. With a trademark, you are able to take legal action to stop this from happening if it arises. You may sue for infringements under trademark law. For this to succeed, you simply need to demonstrate that someone else has used a mark the same as, or similar to, your own registered mark on goods or services similar to the category yours is registered in.

In certain circumstances, the deliberate use of your mark by another without your knowledge may be classed as counterfeiting. This is a criminal offence, and criminal proceedings may be initiated under trademark law by police and Trading Standards Officers.

Without a registered trademark, you can still be protected by the law of ‘passing off’, but this can prove to be a long and costly ordeal.

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It’s often better to be proactive and register your trademark as early on in your business as possible. This means that if your chosen mark infringes on someone else’s, you don’t waste years of hard work and money when you are forced to rebrand.

For UK applications, we will carry out a Certificated Patent Search of your intended trademark. If the trademark you desire is available, we will explore with you how many classes you wish to register the trademark under. Once this is decided, we will proceed to register your trademark with the Patents Office.

A typical application without complications takes around six to nine months to complete. In this time, the Patent Office registers your application and places it in the Trademark Journal. When your trademark is official, we’ll confirm it with you directly.

View the list of all 45 available classes here.

All the indicated fees are exclusive of VAT.

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