{"id":1723,"date":"2022-04-19T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:20:26","slug":"procedure-for-the-registration-of-a-trademark-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/procedure-for-the-registration-of-a-trademark-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Procedure for the Registration of a Trademark in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As the owner of a business or product in Nigeria, the importance of registering your trademark<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>cannot be over emphasized. A trademark is a symbol or a sign which differentiates the goods and services of one business from another one. This symbol or sign may be in the form of a logo, name, slogan, domain name, shape, colour or sound. The registration of a trademark affords protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The description of goods and services in Nigeria is based on the Nice Classification established under the Nice Agreement 1957. The Nice Classification, also known as the International Classification of Goods and Services, categorizes goods and services for the purposes of trademark registration into forty-five (45) classes. Before filing an application, it is important for the applicant to identify the applicable class of trademark as registering a trademark under a particular class provides protection under that category only. If a trademark is used for goods and services under different classes, separate applications are required to be filed under each class to get protection of trademark for the respective goods and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The registration of trademarks in Nigeria is governed by the Trademarks Act.<\/strong> The place of registration is the Trademarks, Patents and Designs Registry located in the Commercial law Department of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trademark registration is valid for a period of seven (7) years from the date of filing at the first instance. Thereafter, the trademark will be renewed every fourteen (14) years. The application for renewal should be made not less than three (3) months from the due date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is important to note that a trademark may be registered either plainly (black and white) or in colour. However, where a trademark is registered in colour, the protection afforded the mark is limited to the colour(s) registered. On the other hand, a plain registration affords protection to all colours of presentation of the trademark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by Chiamaka N. Anyanwu<\/a><\/strong> <\/a> for The Trusted Advisors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Email us: info@trustedadvisorslaw.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Telephone Number: +234 810 159 9159<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the owner of a business or product in Nigeria, the importance of registering your trademark cannot be over emphasized. A trademark is a symbol or a sign which differentiates the goods and services of one business from another one. This symbol or sign may be in the form of a logo, name, slogan, domain name, shape, colour or sound. The registration of a trademark affords protection to the owner of the mark by ensuring the exclusive right to use it to identify goods or services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,23],"tags":[127,24,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,31,135,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedadvisorslaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Procedure for the Registration of a Trademark are as follows:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n