How to register a store name

Even if you called your store “Victory, ” trouble may come unexpectedly. When your competitor opens a store with the same name and registers it as a trademark. In this case, you will have to urgently change not only the name, but it is also likely that you will have to speak with a competitor about the use of his property. After all, any trademark is a property. How to register a store name to save yourself from possible consequences for your business and property?

Instruction manual

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If you registered an IP, then on the signboard of your store you must indicate not only its name, but also the USRIP and TIN. In addition, the name of your store (for example, IP Soloviev Shop "Cheburashka" EGRIP

TIN

) you will need to indicate when registering IP and registration of KKM. Of course, as an individual entrepreneur, you may not have to register your trademark with FIPS (Rospatent), but it is better to do this in order to subsequently avoid possible litigation with its current owner.

2

Please note that the name of the store, if you decide to register a legal entity, must be registered as a trademark, even if your LLC has a different name.

3

Check out the RF Trademark Law. Choose a name for your store so that FIPS does not refuse to register you as a trademark.

4

Please contact FIPS to register your trademark. Attach the following documents to the application:

- The image of your trademark on paper and in electronic form in the established formats;

- certificate of registration of IP / LLC (certified copy);

- statistics codes (certified copy)

- receipt of payment of state duty.

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Be prepared for the fact that consideration of your application for registration and grant of a patent can take up to 1.5 years. During this time, the following procedures will be carried out:

- formal examination procedure (identification of compliance of all submitted documents with reality and the correctness of their preparation) - up to 1.5 months;

- examination of the claimed designation (identifying the identity and similarity of a trademark with previously declared or registered ones and checking for the absence of certain grounds indicated in the Law on Trademarks that may prevent its registration) - the term is unlimited.

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Get a trademark certificate. The term of the exclusive right to a trademark is 10 years, but may be further extended an unlimited number of times.

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