When you’re ready, pick a UK or CTM application, and pay by credit card in our secure estore (where you can opt to pay by BACs if you prefer).
Choose Either a UK or EU Trademark
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United Kingdom
Application in 1 Class £240 plus VAT*
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European CTM
Application in 3 Classes £499 plus VAT*
UK Trademark Information
Trademarks are registered in classes, of which there are 45 categorised into goods and services. It depends on how you plan to use your trademark as to how many classes are relevant to you. For example, if you intend to sell clothes, shoes and bags and jewellery, you would need classes 25 for clothing, class 18 for shoes and bags, and class 14 for jewellery. Although the list of classes are available to view on our website it can be difficult to make sense of them as each class has thousands of different descriptions within them. So don’t worry about the details at this stage. We help you choose the classes relevant to your business. At this stage just decide whether to buy a single class or 3 for now (3 is in practice the number of classes most businesses need) and then you can always pay for more later before we file your application.
EU CTM Trademark Information
European applications include up to 3 classes as standard, so our fees include an application covering 3 classes. This is our fee even if you do not think you need 3 classes (we are pretty sure you will need at least 3 classes though and it is a good idea to take a long term view and register in all the classes in which you are likely to operate within the next 5 years).
Evaluation Information
Although our free search tool should show whether certain similar marks are registered, you may not fully understand the results. For example, it could be that the mark you are intending to register is incapable of functioning as a trademark. Also, the free search may not pick up every result as it relies on public registers, which are not always reliable. Our professional searches use tools that we subscribe to, and an evaluation also gives you the benefit of a legal opinion to reduce the risks of a surprise adverse outcome. Where you intend to register a logo, our searches cover the font or graphical device used, while our evaluation and opinion will cover the words used in the logo.
Right Start Information
The Right Start option is available for UK applications if you only want to register a trademark in a single class, and want to test the Registry’s view of it before settling the remaining half of the official fees. Should the Registry object to your application, you will have £135 available to spend towards filing another trademark application. Alternatively, use it to fund a consultation with us, or to cover an initial response to the Registry’s objections. If there are no objections we will progress your application. Overall this option works out slightly more expensive than a straight UK application in one class.
More Information
The fees indicated cover the fees for the legal work in drafting the application, filing it and overseeing it through to registration. When we file your application, there are fees to pay to the Government body responsible for the trademark registration. The fees are £170 for the UK application, and £50 per extra class thereafter. For EU applications the fees are 900 Euros and cover 3 classes and any classes beyond the first 3 are charged at 150 Euros each. These fees are added as you proceed through the estore, where £845 is included for EU applications in up to 3 classes, and £140 for each extra class, which includes our admin fee, currency fluctuations and bank charges.
