Trademark registration at a fixed price

If owners of similar or identical trademarks have set up trademark monitoring, they will receive notification of your application.

If confusion is alleged, opposition to your application may be filed. Therefore, after registering your trademark, we also advise you to set up a trademark watch.

If you are a (quasi-) manufacturer of goods, the respective goods protection is required. The protection of goods automatically includes the protection of the associated retail services.

If you are a retailer of goods, the protection of the respective retail services is required, not the protection of the goods.

There are three types of trademarks: Word marks, figurative marks, and word/figurative marks.

• Word marks are marks consisting of words, letters, numbers or other characters of the character set used by the Trademark Office. The scope of protection of the trademark here refers to the sequence of characters of the word and usually includes all common spellings.
• Figurative marks are pictures, figurative elements or illustrations (without word elements).
• Word/figurative marks are, as the name suggests, a combination of both. They consist of word and picture elements or of words that are graphically designed in a special way. A classic example of this is a logo with lettering or a special spelling. Here, protection extends to the combination of these representations.

We will be happy to advise you on which trademark form is the best option for your trademark application.

Yes, when you file a trademark application through Recht 24/7, Recht 24/7 Schröder Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH acts as the representative for your trademark application. We handle the application procedure, clarify queries from the trademark office and handle all communication with the trademark office.

If you, as the applicant, do not have a place of residence or business or a branch office, it is mandatory that you be represented by a legal or patent attorney admitted to practice in Germany (Sec. 96 (1) Trademark Act). This is guaranteed with a trademark application through Recht 24/7.

Trademarks are not registered in a blanket manner. Rather, it must be listed for which goods and/or services your trademark is to be protected. This list of goods and services is therefore an important part of the trademark application, which is incomplete without such a list.

The goods and services to which trademark protection extends are organized into (Nice) classes. The trademark classification determines the claimed areas (classes) of the goods or services for which a trademark can be protected.

This trademark classification is divided into 45 classes using an internationally uniform system, the “Nice Classification”.

The goods and services to which trademark protection extends are organized into classes. The trademark classification determines the claimed areas (classes) of the goods or services for which a trademark can be protected.

The official fees (which have to be paid to the Trademark Office after the application has been filed) of an application depend on the number of classes filed and amount to:

• At the DPMA for the application of a German trademark
  • 290.00 € for the DPMA standard application fee with up to three classes
  • for each additional class 100,00 € office fee
• At EUIPO (EU Trademark Office) for the application of an EU trademark
  • standard application fee with one class: 850 €
  • second class 50 € additional office fee
  • each additional class 150 € additional official fee

You will receive your trademark certificate from us after the Trademark Office has registered and published your trademark in the Trademark Register.

If you are applying for a German trademark, you will receive the trademark certificate in paper form.

If you are applying for an EU trademark, you will receive the trademark certificate in digital form (PDF file), as the EUIPO (European Trademark Office) only provides this format.

Trademark protection applies in the countries for which the trademark was applied for.

For a German trademark the protection area is Germany, for an EU trademark the trademark protection applies EU wide, i.e. in all member states of the European Union.

To apply for a trademark, a corresponding application must be filed with the Patent and Trademark Office. The Patent and Trademark Office first checks whether all formal details comply with the legal requirements and whether the official fees have been paid. In addition, the office examines the so-called absolute grounds for refusal. These exist, for example, for trademarks that:

• lack distinctive character
• contain a sovereign sign
• are contrary to public policy or morality.

If there are no grounds for refusal and the formal examination is positive, your trademark will be entered in the trademark register. The entire process is complex and requires competent correspondence with the trademark office.

As part of our “Trademark Application” product, we take care of all the necessary steps for you – from a detailed trademark search to the immediate application.

We will prepare your trademark application within 24 hours after we have received all the necessary information about your trademark, the desired trademark protection and the applicant data.

After your approval, we file the trademark application with the relevant trademark office. Processing at the trademark office until publication of the trademark in the trademark register usually takes up to 4 months.

Recht 24/7 has been around since 2003 and ensures that your trademark is researched and filed quickly and professionally by a lawyer.

Directly to the attorney – without an intermediary platform and detours. We are among the top law firms for trademark applications in Germany.