Trademark registration offers exclusive nationwide rights to use your company's brand names, slogans and logos. Without permission from the rightful owner, no other seller can sell products with their trademarks without risking legal action. Registering a trademark is the best way to ensure that your brand remains legally and exclusively yours.

A trademark can be removed from the register:

• if it clashes with an earlier trademark

• The trademark has not been used after the grace period of time.

An application may be submitted by anyone who has the ability to contract. It should be noted that non-resident entities in some countries must hire a local attorney to represent them before national authorities.

After the registration is completed, the owner obtains exclusive rights over his trademark. Their brand is legally protected from any imitators that can use similar or identical marks without copyright permission.