Sweden

Requirements

Requirements for Filing Trademark Applications

1. A simply signed Power of Attorney.

2. Applicant's name and address.

2. Prints of the trademark.

4. The list of the goods/services and the classes pertaining thereto.

5. Priority documents (if claimed).


Renewal

Renewal of trademarks only needs a formal application to the Patent Office.

No documents showing use of the mark, affidavits or the like are required.

Trademarks shall be used within five years from the registration date and, if not, they are liable to cancellation. Cancellation suits are brought before ordinary courts of law by individuals or others to whom the registration may be detrimental. No ex officio actions are taken in this respect.

Recordal of License, Assignment and Change of Name and Address:

  1. Certified copies of the deed in question. Please note that no notarization or legalizations is required.
  2. As to assignments, it is possible to use a confirmatory assignment deed. It is necessary to indicate whether or not the mark has been transferred together with or independently of the goodwill of the mark.
  3. In all kinds of assignment deeds it is necessary that the signature of the assignor is legible, i.e. printed in block letters below the signature.
  4. A document showing that the signature person is authorized to sign for the assignor. The signature of the assignee is not required according to Swedish practice.

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