GENERAL INFORMATION

Distinctive signs are those signs that a manufacturer or merchant adopts to identify its products or services within the market. In compliance with the criteria established by the ADPIC, Costa Rican laws grant protection to trademarks, trade names, slogans and other indicators, such as geographic origin signs.

TRADEMARES offers legal services for the registration, maintenance, and defense of distinctive signs before the Registry and before all civil and criminal courts in Costa Rica and the rest of Central America.

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REQUIREMENTS

To register trademarks in Costa Rica, TRADEMARES requires a SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY granted by the owner of the trademark. One power of attorney is sufficient to register several trademarks in the name of the case company.

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TIME

Procedures for trademarks are normally taking approximately 5 months reckoned from the date of presentation, provided all documents are complete

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FEES

Trademarks, Commercial names and slogans:

  • Registries: $400
  • Renewals: $325
  • Oppositions or replies $275
  • Assignments $275
  • Change of owner's name $300
  • Use licenses $275
  • Cancellations $175
  • Certified copies of registration title's $150
  • Searches by owners $100
  • Searches by trademarks $50
  • Resorts of appeals of trademarks that have not been processed since the beginning by our firm $275
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The above mentioned charges and fees include all the disbursements normally involved in the procedure, such as publication, registry fees and professional fees. They DO NOT include consular stamps that must be paid for authentication of documents, translation of documents when necessary, courier service, nor any additional expense outside of the normal disbursements.

In case you order the registration of the trademark, the fees of the search will be included in the fees of the trademark application. If the publication is more expensive that the average, we bill the excess in the disbursement.

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