CTM Fee Reduction Backed by Member States

The official registration fee is to be abolished and the official application fee will rise slightly.

A significant overall fee reduction has now been approved which will have an effect on the cost of obtaining trade mark protection throughout the European Union via a CTM application.

It is anticipated that the fee reductions will take effect within a matter of weeks.

The headline details are as follows:

• The official registration fee is to be abolished (currently the registration fee is EUROS 850 in a case with up to 3 Classes of goods/services)
• The official application fee for an electronically-filed CTM application will rise slightly from EUROS 750 to EUROS 900 (again, for a case with up to 3 Classes of goods/services)
• These changes will obviously have significant financial benefits for users of the CTM system.

Please contact a member of the Trade Mark team at Appleyard Lees for further advice.