Trade Mark Application Procedure and stage-application of the trade mark application to the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland for the purpose of obtaining protective law is the first step in the process of obtaining protection on the trade mark. In order to apply for a trade mark, the application for protection of a trade mark should be completed indicating at least the applicant's data, the reserved mark must be determined and the goods or services for which the mark will be reserved.  application e.g. A logo as a trade mark covers only one character, if the subject of the declaration is a colour mark, it must represent one color statement. The patent office gives the application a notification and acknowledges the date of receipt. Stage II – A formal and legal examination consists in verifying that the trade mark application has been correctly made in a formal and legally-correct way. During this initial examination of the trade mark, the Polish Patent Office shall verify, inter alia, that the notification dossier contains all the parts necessary for the recognition of the mark applied for and whether the official fee has been paid. At the same time, within a period of not more than 2 months from the filing date, the Polish Patent office shall disclose in the Register + the registration of the trade mark application in order to be acquainted with it, as well as to report its comments on Circumstances preventing the reservation of the trade mark. Stage III-Substantive examination the patent Office shall examine whether the mark applied for has a registration capacity. This examination concerns the examination of absolute obstacles to the granting of protection law. Thus, a reservation of a trade mark will not be possible, for example, when a logo declared as a trade mark is not suitable for distinguishing goods and is contrary to public policy or morality, it will have a misleading Character or will be reported in bad faith. At this stage, if the Polish Patent Office finds that the trade mark claimed does not meet the statutory conditions for obtaining protection law then it shall contact the notifier in order to speak in the case in question. Upon presentation of the comments of the declarant, or after he has reduced the list of goods and services, the RP Patent Office may waive its objections or refuse to register in respect of all or part of the scope of the protection requested. Stage IV-Publication in the case where the Polish patent office finds that there are no absolute impediments to refusal to grant a trade mark application is published in the Patent Office (BUP) bulletin. Third parties may oppose the mark applied for within 3 months of the date of the notification of the application in BUP. Example of a Patent Office newsletter After publication, everyone has the right to check what Mark has been declared and for which goods or services is reserved, and it is also possible to ask the patent office whether there are circumstances that prevent the granting of protective law to Published character. V Stage-Decision on the granting of protection law if no objection has been lodged by the patent office during the 3 month opposition period, then the trademark will be registered (the same if the opposition is dismissed), In the event that someone makes an objection and the Office considers it to be well founded, the decision to refuse protection law will be issued. The decision to grant a security right to the mark applied for, for example, is conditional and loses it only after payment of the first period of protection. If the fee is not paid within the prescribed time limit, the patent office shall terminate the decision granting the protection law. The logo is acknowledged as an exclusive right to the trademark. A document certifying that a trade mark has been obtained is issued by a patent office and is called a protective certificate for the trade mark. Example of a trade mark protection certificate Information on the fact that trademark protection has been granted is published in the patent Office's messages. A document issued by a patent office certifying that a trade mark has been obtained is a protection certificate for a trade mark. Example of a patent Office message