EUIPO Representation

Who needs a representative

If your business has no domicile, principal place of business or real and effective establishment in the European Economic Area, you may file an EU trade mark application yourself, but you must be represented before the EUIPO in every proceeding after that.¹ This applies to businesses in the UK, Switzerland, the US and everywhere else outside the EEA.²

Only an EEA-qualified legal practitioner or a professional representative on the EUIPO's list can act.³ If no representative is appointed when the EUIPO asks for one, the application is refused.⁴

What we do as your representative

• Appointment and recordal as representative of record.

• An EU address for service, so official letters reach someone who can act.

• Review of every EUIPO communication, forwarded to you with the deadline and what it means.

• Deadline docketing for the life of the mark.

• Routine formalities, such as classification queries, minor irregularities and extensions of time.

Substantive work, such as responding to a refusal, defending an opposition or recording a transfer, is scoped separately so you always know what is included.

Already filed?

We can take over as representative on an application or registration that is already on the register, including where the EUIPO has already written asking you to appoint one.

Sources
1. Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 (EUTMR), Art. 119(2)
2. EUIPO Guidelines, Part A, Section 5
3. EUTMR, Art. 120(1)
4. Ibid., Art. 41(4)