Registration with an industrial property office gives the owner an exclusive right to use the trademark to designate, in trade, the goods and services referred to in the application.

 

The owner is thus the only person who can use the trademark for these goods and services in the protected territory. He can therefore prohibit third parties from using this trademark to sell goods and services identical to his own and, under certain conditions, a similar trademark to offer similar goods and services.

 

A trademark is only protected in the territory of the office with which it has been registered. There are 3 levels of protection: 

 

• The French national trademark: the trademark is protected throughout France (excluding French Polynesia).

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• The European Union trademark: the trademark is protected throughout the European Union (27 Member States).

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• The international trademark: this is a simplified procedure which, following a single filing with a national office, enables a multitude of national titles to be obtained in the countries of the Paris Union or the World Trade Organisation.

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