Your trademark, protected from idea to renewal.

A trademark is the sign customers use to recognise your goods or services: a name, a logo, a slogan, sometimes a shape or a sound. Once registered with OSIM, EUIPO or through WIPO, it gives you the exclusive right to use it for the classes you chose and to stop anyone using an identical or similar sign. Protection lasts 10 years and you can renew it as many times as you like.

OSIM registers trademarks that are valid in Romania only. EUIPO grants the EU trade mark: one application, valid in all 27 member states. An international registration through the Madrid System, run by WIPO, starts from a Romanian or EU mark and extends it to the countries you pick. For countries outside the Madrid System we work with correspondent agents. The right choice depends on where you sell today and where you plan to go.

Yes. A company name registered with the Trade Register and a domain bought from a registrar give you no trademark rights. They won't shield you from an opposition or a cease-and-desist letter from someone who already owns a similar mark. Nor do they let you stop a competitor who puts your name on their products. Only a registered trademark gives you that right, for the classes it covers.

Our fee for an OSIM filing is RON 1,850 + VAT with one Nice class included, plus RON 146 + VAT for each extra class. It is the same for every mark type. For EUIPO, the fee is EUR 700 + VAT with one class included, plus EUR 50 + VAT per extra class. Official fees are paid separately and carry no VAT. Responses to refusals and oppositions are billed at EUR 120 / hour + VAT.

Yes. Your first conversation with us costs nothing. You tell us about your name or logo, where you sell and what you have planned, and we explain your protection options and the costs to expect. It is the only free service: everything else, from availability searches to filing and trademark watch, is paid. Our fees are on the Costs page, and you can ask for a quote for anything not listed.

As a rough guide, an OSIM application with no oppositions or objections usually reaches registration in 6–9 months. At EUIPO it usually takes 4–6 months if nobody opposes. Through the Madrid System it can take 12–18 months, depending on the countries designated. An opposition or a provisional refusal adds a few months. Your filing date counts from day one: from then on you have priority over anything filed after you.