Cyprus Intellectual Property (IP) Services
How You Can Protect Your Cyprus Intellectual Property and Trademarks
If you need help registering and safeguarding your intellectual property and trademarks or need to license your patents or technology, we can assist in the National and International registration and protection process.
We provide the following services:
- Help with registering and safeguarding trademarks, intellectual property in Cyprus and around the world.
- Advice about tax optimization regarding intellectual property issues.
Attain Protection of Your Intellectual Property (Designs, Logos, and Trademarks) In Cyprus
A complex system has been put into place to ensure the protection of IP rights on a European, National, and International level. If you have designs, logos, or trademarks, there are several ways to register them and attain protection.
Submit Application to Cyprus’ Registrar of Companies for National Level Protection
Apply for trademark approval at the Registrar of Cyprus – a process that can take six months. If approved, it takes another three months for the publication of the trademark in the Republic’s Gazette, as there are thousands of them pending. After the trademark has been published, there is a two-month window for anyone to contest the trademark. If no objections are raised, the registration goes through, and the Registrar issues a Trademark Certificate.
Submit an EU Trademark Protection Application to the Community Trademark Office via Cyprus
Apply to the Community Trademark Office located in Alicante. Here, you will register for a Euro mark to ensure trademark protection through the European Union territory. Domestic application, within a Member State, is still possible even where a Euro Mark has been granted.
Submit Registration Application to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for International Protection since Cyprus is Part of the Madrid Protocol and Paris Treaty Signatory
Applications for the World Intellectual Property Organization registration under the Madrid Protocol must be filed with the Office of Origin (Cyprus) to secure trademark protection in many countries. Persons permitted to file an international application under the Madrid Protocol must have a real and effective commercial or industrial business or a domicile in, or be nationals of any country party to the Madrid Protocol.
Before a trademark can be the subject of an international application, it must have already been registered, or the registration must have been applied for, for the same class of goods or services with the trademark registration office of a country party of the Madrid Protocol.
Tax Advantages
Under the latest IP Regime, a Cyprus Company has numerous tax advantages when they use the Royalty rights/IP rights, with a two percent or less tax rate on royalty income.