The cost of registering a trademark has two separate components: the official taxes payable to the office, and the professional fee for handling the file. They are not interchangeable, and it is worth understanding which is which before comparing quotations.
Official taxes
OSIM taxes are set by law and are the same regardless of who files. They depend chiefly on the number of Nice classes and on whether the mark is verbal, figurative or combined. Taxes are paid directly to the office; we pass them through at cost and provide the receipt.
EUIPO taxes follow a different structure: a basic fee covering one class, with additional fees for the second class and each class beyond it. The Madrid System adds a basic international fee plus a designation fee for each country selected, which varies country by country.
Professional fees
Our fee is quoted per act — search, filing, prosecution, response to a refusal, opposition — not as an undifferentiated package. You are told the amount before we act, and it does not change afterwards unless the scope of the work changes.
For instructing firms, professional rates apply and are quoted on the same per-act basis.
What determines the total
- Number of classes. The single largest factor. Filing in classes you do not actually trade in raises cost and creates vulnerability to non-use cancellation after five years.
- Territory. Romania only, the European Union, or a set of countries through the Madrid System.
- Complications. A provisional refusal or an opposition adds work that cannot be predicted at filing.
How to get a figure
Send us the mark, the countries you need and a description of what you actually sell. We come back with the official taxes and our fee, itemised, in euro. There is no charge for the quotation and no obligation to proceed.
We do not publish a price list. Any figure detached from the class count and the territory would be misleading, and you would have to correct it in the first conversation anyway.