Trademark Search Request Malta : Intellectual Property Office gov.mt

Organization : Intellectual Property Office
Type of Facility : Trademark Search Request
Country: Malta

Website : https://commerce.gov.mt/en/industrial_property/Pages/home.aspx

Related :
Intellectual Property Office Malta Submit Your Patent Application Online :
https://www.statusin.org/8681.html

Searching:

The Commerce Department is preparing to provide for direct online searching of its IP Registers once current Projects to upgrade the Department’s Industrial Property IT systems are completed in the near future.

Word Search Fee for €11.65 for every 3 words per mark, in each class.

Patent applications filed as from January 2007 have been entered into the Commerce Department’s SOPRANO for Patents database and it is intended that the Department will shortly embark on a project for the back-capturing of all Maltese Patent records. Preparations are also underway for the integration of Malta’s SOPRANO with the European Patent Organisation’s esp@cenet service, which is further explained below.

Trademark Search Request:

This Office offers the services of trademark searches on the National as well as the European Community Database.

The service is carried out at the request of the client who may send the details of the search request by fax, post or email on ipoffice@gov.mt

For your information please also note that the applicable search fees are as follows:
Figurative Element Search:
€11.65 for every 3 Vienna Codes per mark, in each class.
€1.16 per extract from the national or CTM register.

Naturally, the Office also welcomes the receipt of such requests via fax or normal post.

The Office’s Search Reports do not constitute a guarantee that the searched marks would be registered if an application for registration is submitted. The pre-application search procedure excludes the examination of marks on absolute grounds for refusal and searches in the Community Trademarks register. It is further pointed out that although the searches are carried out scrupulously and attentively, responsibility for any omission, oversight, inaccuracy, or mistake whatsoever is disclaimed by the Office. Representations of National Trademarks are open to public inspection at this Office in terms of law and may be inspected by all those interested.

Pharmaceutical Patents Directory:
In 2009, the Commerce Department entered into a joint initiative with Malta Enterprise, who in turn commissioned Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates, to compile the contents of a Pharmaceutical Patents Directory covering the last 20 years of such registrations in Malta, which has continued being updated on a monthly basis by the Department and which may be viewed by clicking here.

General Patents Directory:
The Commerce Department has separately compiled a General Patents Directory covering the last 20 years of all Patent registrations in Malta, which is also updated on a monthly basis and which may also be viewed here.

European Patents:
Esp@cenet is the European Patent Organisation’s (EPO’s) database of ideas, offering free access to over 60 million Patent documents from all over the world, representing technical developments dating back to 1836. This service can be used to watch new technologies emerge, to find solutions to technical problems and to discover what competitors are developing.

United States Patents:
Google Patents is a service offering over 7 million Patents issued in the United States by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and which are readily available online.