Trinidad and Tobago 2012 - invesTT

Intellectual Property
If the application is approved, the IPO will notify the applicant
or representative of the approval and send the trade mark to a
designated daily newspaper for publication. That newspaper will
contact the applicant or representative and request payment of the
publication fee.
Trademarks are published every Wednesday in a daily newspaper.
Third parties may oppose the trade mark application within three
months of its publication. After the expiry of the three-month period,
if no oppositions were received, the Certificate of Registration is
issued upon payment of the Certificate Fee and the registration
can take approximately twelve to eighteen months. If a Notice of
Opposition is received, the applicant and the opponent must file
various documents and an opposition hearing is convened for a
final determination of the matter.
A single application may be used for multiple classes of goods and
services.
Priority Application
These can be made provided that the earlier application was filed in
a country that is a party to the Paris Convention and an application
for the same mark and the same goods or services is filed in Trinidad
and Tobago within six months of the filing of the application in the
foreign country. A certified copy of the earlier application must be
filed at the Intellectual Property Office within three months of filing
the application for the same mark at the Intellectual Property Office.
How is the registration process?
If there are no corrections to be made to the application and no
opposition to the application, the mark will be registered within six
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