IntecticaBulgaria
General information
-
Valid Nice Classification – NCL 11-2017
-
Procedure
Registration period – about 10 months from the date of filing. Proof of registration – Certificate Procedures feature – From the date of filing you should regularly monitor trade mark applications to check whether any of them conflict with your trade mark.
| Step | Term | Official notification |
| Filing an application | 1 day | Notification with entr. number, Name of applicant, Date and time of filing |
| Formal examination | 2 months from the date of filing fee payment | Notification. If the BPO detects any error, they will send Notification with proposition to correct it. 2 months to answer. |
| Examination of absolute grounds for refusal | 3 months after previous step | Notification. If the application doesn’t meet requirements, they will send Notification – Provisional refusal. 2 months to answer. |
| Publication | 1 moth after previous step | Notification about publication |
| Opposition period | 3 months from the date of publication | |
| Payment of registration, publication fees | 1 moth after previous step | Invitation for payment registration and publication fees . |
| Publication | 1-3 months | Certificate and publication |
Requirements
1. The Applicant details
| Legal Entity | Physical person |
| The full official name (Engl. translitaration) | The Name (as it is in the passport and/or Engl. transliteration) |
| A Legal address | An address |
2. The image of the TM (jpg), The verbal elements, other 3. Goods and services / classes NCL11-2017 (we‘ll help you to choose the classes for your goods/services) 4. POA (scanned copy without legalization)
Representation by a trademark attorney Foreign applicants must perform the trademark prosecution in Bulgaria through an agent, a registered in Bulgaria trademark attorney.
Priority document The priority document must be submitted within three months from filing a trademark application in Bulgaria.
Translation. We translate from English/Russian into Bulgarian for free of charge.
The Power of Attorney
The official legalization is not required. The signed and stamped (if applicable) POA form must be submitted within two months from the date of filing (scanned copy is enough). Download POA here POA
General information
Invention
-
Procedure
Registration period – about 2-4 years from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 20 years from the application filing date. Patent for invention can be extended for additional 5 years if the object of the patent is a medicine, a pesticide, when the use of the product requires the permission of the competent authority.
What can be protected: product (device, substance, microorganism strain, plant and animal cell culture, etc.); process (method); new use of the known product or process.
| Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
| Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date. PCT national phase entry in Bulgaria – 31 months from the priority date. |
| Formal examination | 3 months from application filing date | Formal examination request / Notification of completion of formal examination. | Responding to formal examination request – 3 months from date of receipt1. |
| Preliminary examination | 3 months from completion of formal examination | Preliminary examination request / Notification of completion of preliminary examination. | Responding to preliminary examination request – 3 months from date of receipt1. |
| Substantive examination | 1,5-2 years from application filing date | Substantive examination Request / Decision of grant/refusal. | Filing petition to proceed substantive examination – at the time of application filing. Responding to Substantive examination request – 3 months from date of receipt1. |
| Grant and Publication | within 5 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 3 months from Grant decision receipt2. |
| Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during the previous year2. |
1 – This term may be extended for 6 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – This term may be extended for 2 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
3 – Validity of the patent can be renewed within 6 months after expiration of payment period, upon corresponding fee payment.
Utility model
-
Procedure
Registration period – about 8-12 months from from application filing date.
Proof of registration – Certificate.
Term of validity – 4 years from the application filing date. Patent for utility model can be extended for additional 6 years.
What can be protected: device.
| Step | Term | Official notification | Deadline |
| Filing application | 1 day | Notification with registration number, name of applicant, date and time of filing. | Direct filing with claiming priority – 12 months from priority date. PCT national phase entry in Bulgaria – 31 months from the priority date. |
| Formal examination | 1 month from application filing date | Formal examination request / Notification of completion of formal examination. | Responding to formal examination request – month from date of receipt1. |
| Preliminary examination | 3 months from completion of formal examination | Preliminary examination request / Decision of grant/refusal. | Responding to preliminary examination request – month from date of receipt1. |
| Grant and Publication | within 3 months from grant fees payment | Certificate | Payment of grant and publication fees – 1 months from Grant decision receipt. |
| Annuity fees | each year | Invitation to pay annuity fees | Annuity fee for each subsequent year is paid during the previous year2 |
1 – This term may be extended for 3 months, upon corresponding fee payment.
2 – Validity of the patent can be renewed within 6 months after expiration of payment period, upon corresponding fee payment.
Requirements
Invention/utility model
1. Applicant details.
| Legal Entity | Natural person |
| Full official name (English transliteration) | Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
| Legal address | Address |
2. Inventor details.
| Natural person |
| Name (as per passport and/or English transliteration) |
| Address |
3. Number of International publication (PCT procedure) or Application materials: claims, description, abstract, drawings (non-PCT procedure; international application wasn’t published).
4. Bulgarian translation of the application (we prepare by ourselves).
5. POA (no legalization or notarization required).
6. Certified copy of the priority application (if priority is claimed).
Representation by the invention attorney: Foreign applicants must perform the invention prosecution in Bulgaria through an agent, a registered in Bulgaria invention attorney.
POA and Bulgarian translation of the application must be submitted within 3 months from the date of filing.
Priority documents must be submitted within 3 months from the date of filing.