A trademark is an image or a sign which separates the merchandise and enterprises of one business from another. You can enroll your trademark – a name, logo, motto, space name, shape, shading or sound with the Commercial Law office, Ministry of Trade and Investment in Nigeria.

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This can lawfully shield your trademark from use by a contender. The trademark must be unmistakable for the products and ventures that you give, not be beguiling, unlawful or shameless and not be like existing trademarks

Prerequisites

1. Your full name(s), nationality and physical address

2. The trademark data: The portrayal must be clear and unmistakable. On the off chance that to be recorded on the web, delicate duplicates are to be given in jpeg design at least 1200 dpi.

3. For merchandise, a full scope of products secured or proposed to be secured by the exchange stamp.

4. A Power of Attorney basically marked, with full particulars of name(s), address (es) and nationality of the applicant(s). Full name(s) and limit of the signatory when candidate is a firm/organization.

Techniques FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADEMARKS

1. The typical market rehearse is to teach a neighborhood Attorney/Agent in Nigeria, who might document and process applications at the Nigerian Registry of Trade Marks, Patents, Designs and Copyright. A Power of Attorney/Authorization of Agent Form would be finished for such nearby Agent, as the empowering instrument to represent the important/Applicant.

2. In the wake of documenting the application for exchange check enrollment, the Registrar issues an official affirmation mirroring the official number and recording date of the application.

3. A pursuit is led in order to affirm on the off chance that it is not quite the same as existing or pending enlistment. In the event that the Registrar finds the trademark worthy for enlistment, the candidate will be outfitted with a letter/notice of acknowledgment.

4. Each exchange stamp application must be promoted in the Nigerian Trademark Journal, and is available to restriction for a time of two (2) months from the date of notice.

5. In the event that no protests are gotten inside the predefined period or no complaints are supported, the Registrar will issue the candidate with a declaration of enrollment.

6. Whenever issued, the Registration Certificate will have the date of beginning documenting of enrollment

7. Nigerian exchange check enrollments have an underlying legitimacy of seven (7) years, and are from that point uncertainly inexhaustible for times of fourteen (14) years. An application for reestablishment ought to be made at the very least three (3) months from the due date.