Mark means any sign used to distinguish goods or services of different organizations or individuals. Signs eligible for being registered as trademarks must be visible ones in the form of letters, numerals, words, pictures, images, including three-dimensional images or their combinations, presented in one or several given colors. A product mark attach to a product or a product’s packing to distinguish between this company’s products and others company’s. A service mark, as well as the product mark, attach to services to tell the same services provided by diffirent organizations or individuals apart.
Normally, a trade mark attach to only one kind of product or service. However, the owners can totally registers and uses one trademark for many diffirent goods or services acording to Vietnam Law on intellectual. They have to classify their goods and services in classes of the Nice Classification 11th Edition as well.
Currently, Nice Classification 11th consists of 34 classes of products and 11 classes of services. Owners can register one trademark for 45 classes above and use one for all the products and services registered.
Applications, procedure, valid of protection title of register trademark for many goods or services is similar to the ones of register trademark for one product or service in Vietnam.
Fees when registering trademark for many classes, products or services:
- Official charges for filing application: VND 150,000/ 01 application;
- Fee for publication of application: VND 120,000/ 01 application;
- Fee for formality examination:
- VND 550,000/ 01 group of goods or services
- From the 7th good or service onwards: VND 120,000/ 01 good or service
- Fee for the trademark search for the substantive examination process:
- VND 180,000/ 01group of goods or services;
- From the 7th good or service onwards: VND 30,000/ 01 good or service
- Fee for hiring lawyer who helps owners to complete the process without difficulty.
As you can see, the more products or sevices you register a mark for, the more the fees get higher. Besides, it will increase the chance of application being denied because the mark’s sign identical with or confusingly similar to another mark which are registered in same class, the mark will only being granted for some of the products or services you signed as a result.
For more details about register a mark for many goods or services in Vietnam, please contact Viet An LawFirm to get the best result!
