CABRERA
& RICO
attorneys at law
Puerto Rico
Vick Center Bldg.
867 Muņoz Rivera Ave.,
Ste D403
San Juan, P.R. 00925
Tel. (787) 754-9754
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BUSINESS GROUP
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Florida, USA
Brickell Arch
1395 Brickell Avenue, Ste 800
Miami, FL 33131
Tel. (786) 350-2120
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CABRERA
& RICO
Law Offices located in San Juan, Puerto Rico in affiliation
with CR Business
GROUP Florida help start-up or existing
business to protect their business trademarks
in the USA and internationally.
We help either in the selection of a newly proposed trademark or
in planning a strategy to get a mark in use duly register. We
also assist trademark owners in the protection of their
trademark against violators or closing licensing deals to
commercially exploit their trademarks. With our network of
affiliated attorneys, we can coordinate trademark registrations in other
countries within Latin America, the Caribbean (including
Cuba),
Asia and Europe. We offer the convenience of
bilingual staff in Spanish
& English languages and our affiliates in foreign countries
are also fluent in either English or Spanish.
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TRADEMARK
SERVICES: (for services
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Our
firm offers trademark services
in the following areas:
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Registration and renewal of Trademarks
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Filing Certifications for Use for Intent to Use
applications -
Drafting of
License Agreement for the use of Trademarks -
Preparation
of Legal Documents to sell or transfer your
Trademark
-
Preparation of Opposition to others' Trademark
Applications
Puerto
Rico Trademark Highlights
- Puerto Rico system
follows the International Nice classification
- Each class must be
filed in a separate application
- A word mark and its logo can be filed
simultaneously, same application
- Our system accepts words, numbers, letters,
graphics, sound, forms, smell, colors, fragrance, movement, 3D
forms
- Intent To Use
applications are accepted
- Protection is
given for 10 years, renewable by further 10 year terms if in use
- Registration date
is retroactive to filing date
- For the Intent to
Use Application, JPEG or PDF of mark is Acceptable
- For a mark in use, 3 real specimens are
needed
- Power of Attorney does no need to be
notarized
- Three years to submit
evidence of First Use on "Intent-to-Use" applications
- To
keep Tm alive, use most be certified between years 5-6 and 9-10
- Generic
trademarks may be registered based on distinctiveness acquired
by use. Five years of continued use converts a generic
mark into a distinctive one.
- For products, the
following are not
acceptable specimens: business cards, ads, price list,
directories, catalogs.
- For services, the
following are not
acceptable specimens: Press Releases, Media Articles or
News
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For more
information contact us at: services@cabrera-rico.com
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