Trademarks registration in Lithuania
Trademark validity time registered with the Lithuanian Patent Bureau is 10 years, afterwards renewable each time for a new 10 year period. State fee for a renewal is 70 EUR. For every more than one class of goods and (or) services for which the mark is registered the additional payment is 35 EUR per each.
Opposition against published marks may be submitted within 3 months from the publication date (state fee is 93 EUR). Whole registration process of a trademark takes about 1 year, state fees payable are EUR 70 for filing and EUR 70 upon grant. "Likelihood of confusion or perception of mutual relation" is a principle applied in Lithuania in determining if two marks may co-exist.
Further, the Customs authorities may be notified on registered marks, and in this way border control against counterfeited goods enforce, down to destruction of seized goods. Owners of trademarks may enforce their rights on removal infringing trademarks of unofficial distributors, traders, etc., from advertisement, documents, goods and services.
see Trademark Law in Lithuania and Copyright Law in Lithuania.
Power of attorney in Lithuania for patent and trademark registration
Trademark assignmet in Lithuania
Some of trademarks represented:
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For questions, please, contact Valters Gencs, attorney at law at info@gencs.eu
The material contained here is not to be construed as legal advice or opinion.