Trade-Marks
3. Getting Started
(b) Filing a Trade-Mark Application
In order to file an application, you will need to provide some basic information, and to make some choices. For example, the Trade-marks Office will need to know exactly who the applicant is, (ie. an individual, a partnership, a corporation, etc.). You will also be required to provide a description, in commercially acceptable terms, of the specific wares and/or services that are to be provided under the trade-mark, and when (if at all) the trade-mark was first used with those wares and/or services. You will also have to decide and inform the Trade-marks Office of the form in which you want your trade-mark to appear. Will the trade-mark be a word or words, a graphic design, or some combination thereof. You must additionally consider whether your plans will include licensing others to use trade-mark. A trade-mark agent can advise you regarding these matters, so that the choices you make will result in obtaining a registration for the most versatile trade-mark possible to complement your present business plan and possible future expansion plans.