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A trademark is a word, symbol, or packaging design that identifies and distinguishes the goods and services of a specific individual or business entity. Registering your trademark gives you the power to take legal action against anyone who may try to replicate your designs. If you have unique, original designs, getting them trademarked is an amazing idea.
i. An application to register a Trade Mark must be filed at the Trade Marks & Designs Directorate, of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), via form ‘TM1’.
ii. The application must contain a clear reproduction of the Mark being filed for registration, including any colours, forms, or three-dimensional features.
iii. The application must also contain acceptable and specific descriptions of the goods and/or services to which the Mark will apply. While we classify goods and services based on the Nice Classification of goods and services. The goods and services must be specific as the Class Headings are not generally acceptable descriptions..
iv. The Mark must fulfill all the requirements under the Trade Marks Act, 1999, Trade Marks Rules 2001 and The Trade Marks Amended Rules 2011, in order for it to be protected as a Trade Mark including as a Collective or Certification Mark.
v. It is recommended that an applicant conduct a preliminary search and examination at JIPO, to ensure that the Mark for the goods/ services being applied for is not identical or similar to an earlier registered Mark for identical or similar goods/services, which would prevent the applicant’s Mark from being registered.
(a) The applicant or his representative may conduct the search manually at a cost of $1,100 per hour or for any fraction of an hour.
(b) The applicant may request that JIPO conduct the preliminary search and provide advice. A Letter requesting same must be used to request this search; the applicant must provide a representation of the Mark and the list of classes and the appropriate goods and/or services. The cost for this search is $2,200 per class
i. Upon application: $7,800 (application fee include payment for the first class), plus $2,200 for every additional class.
ii. Upon acceptance of the Mark for registration: $10,000.00 for publishing the Mark in the JIPO TMs Journal, and for registration.
For a Certification or Collective Mark, an additional fee of $11,200.00 is required to file regulations governing the use of the Mark.
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