Wednesday 4 November 2015

The Department of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Bangladesh vide notification dated September 20, 2015 has amended the Trade Marks Rules. By virtue of the said amendment the fee structure for filing and prosecuting trade mark applications including renewal of the trade mark registrations has been increased.

The said amendment has revised the official fees structure for filing the trade mark applications and the practice of determining the official fees at the different stage of Trade mark prosecution depending upon the kind of goods has been eliminated. The official fees for filing and prosecuting trade mark applications will no longer be dependent on the kind of goods and shall remain fixed.

A tabular representation depicting the revised fee structure is reproduced below:

Services
Previous Official Fee
US$ (Approx. equiv.)
Current Official Fee
US$ (Approx. equiv.)
Filing of an application for Registration of one Trade Mark/Service Mark in one class
25/40/55
(depending upon the kind of goods in a single class)
55
(kind of goods are not allowed in the current fee structure)
Claiming a Hearing/Attending in a Hearing (if any)
NIL
20
Acceptance and payment of advertisement fees for publication in the Trade Mark Journal
10
20
Filing of Registration Fees (when there is no opposition)

75/150/225
(depending upon the kind of goods in a single class)
225
(kind of goods are not allowed in the current fee structure)
Renewal of each Trade Mark Registration
75/150/225
(depending upon the kind of goods in a single class)
225
(kind of goods are not allowed in the current fee structure)
Late Fee for Renewal of Trademark Registration
30/50/75
(depending upon the kind of goods in a single class)
85
(kind of goods are not allowed in the current fee structure)
Filing of an application to register a subsequent proprietor in a case of assignment or transmission of a trade mark (Recordal of Trademark Assignment):-
25/50
50
Every additional mark.
10
10
Filing a petition for extension of time (if any).
10/15
(depending upon the number of extension petition)
15

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