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The trade mark can be register individually at the Industrial Property Office. Permission to apply the trade mark has any individual or legal entity, which is legally competent, either directly or through his agent, especially a lawyer or patent attorney. The application may be submitted in person or by mail or by fax or electronically, and, if it is submitted by fax or electronically without a certified electronic signature, it must be no longer than five days confirmed by the original written submission.

The application must contain a request for registration of the trade mark in the register, the name and address of the company (as legal entity), or the name and address of the applicant (as individuals), text or illustrations of the printed signs, the list of goods and services for which the mark is registrable and signature of the applicant or his/her representative. In the event of an mark of other than verbal form and in casual font, it is accompanied by three signs, and if the applicant is represented, as well as power of attorney.

In the case of a collective trade mark, the application must be accompanied by a written agreement between all parties which set out the conditions for use of collective mark. Collective trade mark, compared with an individual mark, however, enjoys some restrictions, in particular cannot be licensed, cannot be given as security and cannot be transferred to another individual or legal entity.

Proper filing leads to applicant acquiring of the priority before anybody that would later applied an identical or similar trade marks for identical or similar goods or services.

After completion of the formal and substantive examination and, if all conditions for registration are fulfilled, the application is forwarded for publication in the IPO Gazzette stating that after the statutory three-month period and if there has been no reasoned objections to its registration, supported by appropriate evidence by authorized persons in writing, the sign is registered as a trade mark into Trade mark Register. By the time the registration of the trade mark any person may also submit any so-called comments, which are look at in substantive examination of the trade mark application and deciding on the registration of the mark in the register.