After the first recordal of a new application, the owner or the owner's attorney of the record, if provided, will receive a Certificate of Recordal depicting the mark, the owner's information, and the date of recordal from which renewals are to be calculated.
You can check the status of your trademark application with our Clients Portal, a unique platform that will allow you to be informed of every step of the process of the application. If you have questions about our Clients Portal contact us at: info@brlatina.com
There is no provision for filing an application by means of facsimile transmission, by "faxing" it to the Office. Applications, whether originals or copies, must be filed either by hand or by mail.
We have in our webpage all the instructions you need to follow and you can verify the estimate for your trademark online. Once you contact us and provide all the information, we have the capacity to ensure that your application will be filed and the process will be followed by a professional to assure that [...]
Applicants are not obliged to hire an attorney for assistance with trademark filings, although it may be desirable to employ an attorney who is familiar with trademark matters, since their might be opposition and requirements that are confusing and in terms that are not easy to understand. Must of the time people need advising in [...]
It is advisable to conduct a search of the office records before filing an application. Searching first helps to ensure that the use of any proposed trademark will not infringe the rights of another party, and thus reduces the risk of any challenge or lawsuit from the owner of prior rights in a trademark or [...]
A trademark search is a review of various information, including trademark databases, and occasionally commercial and marketplace resources, typically designed to determine whether a particular trademark is available for use without risk of infringement of the rights of a prior user or registrant, and registration, referring to the criteria for registrable trademarks under local laws. A trademark search also can [...]
Every country has a Trademark Official Gazette that is a weekly publication that the Trademark Office does to keep the applicants or community informed about the trademark applications they are managing and publishes newly registered trademarks. If you want to know updates about the processes or applications published on the gazette where your filing your application you can [...]
With BR Latin America you can file a trademark application in 18 countries of Latin America: Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Contact us: info@brlatina.com, if you are interested in filling a trademark application in one or more of the countries listed [...]
A trademark gives value and protection to a business, since they are protected by the intellectual property. This are some of the benefits you will have once you register your trademark: You will have a constructive notice nationwide (in the country where you file the application) of the trademark owner's claim. Ownership of the trademark. [...]