Intellectual Property Services on Filing

There are several services which are offered by the regarding the company which you choose to carry out your intellectual property documentation and legalizing it according to the regional and international laws. After having a brief discussion with the service providing firm, it checks the availability for the trademarks and other things in their relevant categories to avoid getting the same which is already registered. It is very useful and critical because if your trademark matches with already registered trademark, you can get you sued for copying his idea and infringement in his intellectual property.

Once the clearance is done, the drafting for trademark application is performed with the help of a law expert. After it, the application for the trademark is filled for filing it in the relevant business category. Errors and other things are rectified at this stage of process to avoid any further delay in the application after filing it. The application should pass to the process of proofreading to fully ensure that it is free from all typographical as well as conditional errors.

Drafting of Application, Filing In Trademark Registry and Docketing of Application

The first thing after checking the list of available trademarks is to create a draft for your trademark application. In drafting the application, an attorney will work along with you for providing right forms for filing and also forthe identification of trademark. An Attorney will also guide in filling the forms in correct manner so the application will be error free or at least have less errors which are scrutinized in further process.

A filing application is then prepared according to the format which includes personal details of the applicant, the description of trademark, a statement for the type of the goods and services provided, the application fee and other specific requirements according to the relevant category of trademarks. The application then sent to multiple departments for carrying out the further process.

Application first goes to the Data capture department where it is converted into digitalized form with all the provided information and a receipt of acknowledgement is provided. After that the information is passed to the examination section who carefully examine the information provided. If there is anything missing or contradicting with another trademark, a notice is issued for rectifying it according to the relevant law and procedure. Getting passed from this section, it comes in the hand of Journal department for publication of the trademark to create public awareness. At that stage any opposition application is filed if it violates their intellectual property right.

Once the trademark application satisfies all the criteria without any opposition application filed by another party, it is recommended for registration. A fee has to be paid for getting a registration certificate which is valid for 10 years and it must have to be renewed in order for the protection of it. Failing to do so will result in removal of the trademark from the accepted trademark list. Trademark is renewed by filing an application along with the prescribed fees for it.

(The above defined procedure is of Pakistan, it can be varied in other countries depending upon their laws and policies)

DOCKETING OF TRADEMARK APPLICATION

Docketing is the way IP professionals manage deadlines and documents associated with the patent and trademark application process.  An effective docketing system is particularly important when managing the prosecution process of hundreds of different patents and trademarks over a time period of many years

PIPLA – The Pakistani Intellectual Property Experts

Pakistan Intellectual Property Licensing Attorney, in short PIPLA has very good track record of providing these Intellectual property services and creating awareness among the clients of intellectual property. PIPLA provides all of the above mentioning services at a very sufficient cost, enabling its client to concentrate on business activities and don’t worry about his intellectual property.