2. The procedure shall be similar in the case of trade names.
Article 14
Applications for the registration of trademarks or trade names must be set out in a request written in
Portuguese, which must contain identification of the applicant, whether a natural or legal person,
along with his/its name, address and headquarters and other identifying elements.
Article 15
In the case of trademark applications, the products or services for which they are intended and their
respective class must be referred to.
Article 16
Trademark applications may contain products or services belonging to different classes. A fee must be
paid for each class of product or service.
Article 17
On receipt of a registration application, the application shall be allocated an entry number, and the
verbal expression shall be noted in a search catalogue. There shall be another catalogue for trade
names and yet another for trademarks, both organized in alphabetical order.
Article 18
Figurative marks must also be grouped together in their own file by order number.
Article 19
Graphic representations of trademark must be submitted, whenever possible, in the form of a
photocopy or drawing, one of which shall be printed or pasted in the publication sheet and the other in
the application.
Article 20
The size of the graphic representation of the trademark shall not exceed 8 cm high by 8 cm wide, nor
be smaller than 3 cm high by 3 cm wide.
Article 21
Once the registration application has been made public, there shall be a period of 90 days during
which complaints may be made against the application, to be presented in duplicate.
Article 22
The applicant may respond, within a period of 90 days, after learning, through notification, of the
complaint submitted.
Article 23
The applicant shall be notified of the grant/refusal order.
Article 24
Applications for the registration of trademarks or names shall be rejected if they fail to comply with
the conditions contained in the present Regulation or in the Industrial Property Law.
Article 25
The rules governing trademarks shall, with the necessary adaptations, apply to “Geographical
indications” and “Appellations of Origin”.
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