Trademark registration in Mongolia

Registration of trademark in Mongolia

Registration of trademark in any country allows individualizing goods or services and attaches the rights to own it. Registered trademark will make the company recognizable, protect intellectual property and secure against counterfeit products. The first step is to submit application for registration of trademark in Mongolia.

It is possible to register trademark in Mongolia in two ways:

• National trademark registration procedure;
• International trademark registration procedure.

In accordance with the international registration procedure, all your actions should comply with the provisions of the Madrid Agreement and the Protocol thereto.

The right to registering a brand name in Mongolia

The following can be registered as trademarks in Mongolia:

• Any graphic images;
• Conjunctions of figures and words in any combination;
• Sound and color combinations;
• Various slogans;
• Holograms, etc.

In case of the national procedure, applications for registration of trademarks are submitted to the Patent Office of Mongolia. They are verified there for compliance with the prescribed rules for filing the application. The application should indicate the following:

• Surname, name (designation), address, e-mail, telephone number of the applicant;
• Surname, name, address, e-mail, telephone number of the representative (if the application is submitted through the representative);
• Description and accurate image of the trademark;
• List of designations of goods and services for which registration of trademark is applied. They should be grouped in accordance with the ICGS.

The search among previously registered trademarks is conducted to verify your trademark for similarity or identity of the image and writing. After that, the application is published in the special news-bulletin and is examined on its merits.

After the publication, third parties have the right to raise their objections. If such objections were not raised or they were rejected, the trademark is recognized as registered. After payment of the corresponding fee and official approval, the Certificate of registration of the trademark in Mongolia is issued.

The validity of the trademark is ten years, and it may be subsequently renewed for another ten years.

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