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Trademark Registration
Trademark Registration basically means registration of exclusive ownership.
A Trademark helps protect against infringement and use of creative works by
third parties to the registered creative work

To Register a Trade Mark in Kenya, it should contain the following ingredients.

  • The name of a company , individual or firm , represented in a special or
    particular manner
  • The signature of the applicant for registration or some predecessor in his
    business
  • An invented word or invented words;
  • A word or words having no direct reference to the character or quality of
    the goods, and not being according to its ordinary signification a
    geographical name or a surname.
  • Any other distinctive mark.


Registration of Trademark

  • Preliminary Search:  to find out whether the trademark is registrable or not
    and also whether there exists in the records a trademark which could be
    confused with the intended trade mark.
  • Application for Trademark registration : Application made to the Registrar
    on form TM 2 accompanied by seven (7)representations of the mark.
  • Filling of form TM 32 (for entry of the address of service in Kenya)
  • Examination.
  • Advertisement : When the application is accepted, it shall be advertised in
    the Industrial Property Journal or Kenya gazette to allow any interested
    party an opportunity to raise objections to the pending application prior to
    registration. The advertisement is for 60 days.
  • Registration : Where there is no objection in the mandatory 60 days, the
    process of registration begins.

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