There are two ways to add trademarks to an existing family:
1. Add extensions via the priority trademark
2. Manually and independently add a new trademark.
This feature is useful for specific situations such as:
- Adding multiple priority trademarks to a single family
- Adding trademarks to a family without a priority link
- Adding older trademarks which already exist but have not yet been registered in the system
To access ‘Add a trademark’ option, click the 3 dots menu in family view:
Fields description:
- Trademark Reference: Most of the time the trademark reference is built on the following format: "Family Reference" - "Country Code" (+ digit if several asset in the same country).
Reminder: A trademark reference should be unique.
- Trademark title: The title of the trademark (or trademark name) can be independent of the family title.
The family title is by default automatically suggested by the system ; it can be modified. - Type of the trademark: Choose the trademark type between the following ones:
- Word
- Figurative
- Color
- 3-D
- Multimedia
- Combined
- Country of the trademark: Selection of the protected jurisdiction (national or regional)
- Status of the trademark: It is possible to select two basic statuses:
- "Filing is in progress" if the project is in the process of filing and if the filing number and filing date are not yet available
- "Protection is already filed".
NB: If you are adding older trademarks that were already Registered or Abandoned, you will be able to later on select these statuses.