Trade marks

Your business brands can be powerful assets. Preventing other businesses from trading on your good name helps protect you against unfair competition.

If a trademark is to be registered, whether a word, logo, shape, sound or smell, it must be represented graphically on the application form

Use this online tool from the Intellectual Property Office to register a trade mark. You can't make changes to a trade mark after it's been registered

Search for UK trade marks by number, proprietor, refused mark, mark text or image and search for refused trade marks using this handy search tool