Community trademark

The Community trademark was established by the
European Union ( Council Regulation No 40/94) to
provide a unified trademark for the entire European Community.

Community trademark registration takes place through a single
procedure and confers protection in all European Union Member
States as a whole and indivisibly. Registration is handled by the
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), and no
actions before national industrial property offices are necessary.

As a single registration covering the whole of the European Union,
the Community trademark represents a total departure from the system
of separate national registrations that traders have hitherto been
required to use in order to obtain trademark protection in the EU.

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