As a part of our effort to make the common public more familiar with a local perspective of general business terms and procedures, we have covered registration procedures of companies, partnership firms and patents in the recent past. Moving in the same direction, we’d like to introduce another unit of Intellectual Property (IP) to our readers with this post, viz. Trademarks. (For an understanding of Intellectual Property, you may visit our previous post on Patents or Pakistan’s IP Organization’s official website).
As said, we are going to discuss one of the most asked questions “How to Register a Trademark in Pakistan”. Most of the people are not that much aware of the technicality of a trademark. It is mandatory for all people to know about the importance of trademark in business. Those who are thinking to start a business and to launch some products they definitely need a trademark registration so that people can easily distinguish their product from many other similar products.
If you have a plan to register a company or have already registered company or business and about to launch products or services then you have to register a trademark. There is a complete process of trademark registration which we need to understand. Let’s discuss what is a trademark, importance of trademark in business and what is the procedure involved in trademark registration in Pakistan.
A trademark, as defined by Wikipedia, is a recognizable sign, design or expression which identifies products or services of a particular source from those of others. Used interchangeably with brand, mark, or logo, a trademark can be some sort of unique typographic design or font-based art, imagery, 2D or 3D figure, signature, numerals, etc., or a combination of these.
In Pakistan, Trademarks Registry (TMR) is the federal government body that governs the rules and procedures for registering the Trademarks for different firms and products. The body works under IPO and acts as a Civil Court, and the head-office for TMR is located in Karachi.
In order to get your Trademark registered, please fill out the form at the end of the post
The procedure for trademark registration is as follows.
In order to get your Trademark registered, please fill out the form at the end of the post
A number of different costs are involved in the process of registering, renewing or modifying a trademark. It is the applicant’s responsibility to make sure that all the costs are paid in full at the time of submission of accompanying application form.
Contact persons at Trademark Registration Office, Pakistan can be reached at their designated phone numbers and e-mail addresses. A list of such contact persons can be found on IPO’s website here.
Generally, law firms and consultants can also be hired to provide assistance in trademark-related procedures.
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