Trademark registration

Main information

Trademark allows entrepreneurs to label their goods so that consumers can remember and choose them more easily. The registration of a trademark gives its owner the right to use the registered sign exclusively for specified goods and services, while prohibiting other competitors on the market from using signs identical or similar for identical or similar goods or services.

This applies to you if

Any individual or legal entity shall be entitled to submit the trademark application.

Please note that any natural or legal person without an address in the Czech Republic must be represented in the proceedings by a Czech patent attorney (Chamber of Patent Attorneys) or a lawyer (Czech Bar Asociation).

When to use this service

You can utilise this service at any time.

Service settlement

What you need if you are using this service

Filled out trademark application form.

Where and how to solve this service

The service can be made use of by filing at the office of the Industrial Property Office:

Industrial Property Office

Office hours of the registry can be found at the website of the Industrial Property Office.

How much will you pay

The fee for the submission of application is as follows:

• Individual trademarks within three classes of products or services - CZK 5,000,
• Collective and certification trademarks within three classes of products or services - CZK 10,000,
• For each class of products or services above three classes - CZK 500.

Classes of products and services may be accessed using TMclass.

Fees can be paid in cash at the Office’s cash register, transfer from account or money order to account no. 3711- 21526001/0710.

The trademark application number shall be indicated by: O, a dash and a serial number. The application file number is automatically assigned by the Office upon the receipt of the trademark application.

The variable symbol is made up of the number 3 and the number of the application file.

For O-8516 the variable symbol is: 38516, for O-141141 the variable symbol is: 3141141.

The fee must be paid within 1 month of filing the application, otherwise the application is deemed not to have been filed. The Office does not send any formal request for payment of the fee.

Additional information

What is the benefit of this service

The trademark registration provides the owner with better possibilities for legal protection of its trade signs against misuse.

Appeal options

You may appeal against first instance decision of the IPO CZ. As a party to the procedure you can file an appeal with the IPO CZ within one month from the delivery of the contested decision.

At the same time you are obliged to pay an administrative fee in the amount of CZK 1,000.

It must be obvious from the filing that it is a legal remedy, who is applying, against which decision and what is being proposed. The appeal must be factually justified, and it must provide evidence upon which the appeal is based.