Send official documents with your trademark application

  • Guide

Priority

If you have already registered your trademark in a Contracting State of the Paris Convention, you have six months (following the first filing date) in which to extend its protection to Monaco while continuing to benefit from the first filing date. Any applications filed by anyone else during that period will not be enforceable against you.

To raise a priority claim with the Office, you should send us an official copy of the first filing and indicate it expressly in section No. 9 of the registration application form. If this copy is not in French, a translation must be provided with it.

NOTE: If you are not the party claiming priority, you will need to submit written permission from the first applicant, authorising you  to make the claim.

Reciprocal arrangements

If you are not based in Monaco and are not a national of a Contracting State of the Paris Convention, your application will need to be accompanied by (original) proof that your country of origin also grants protection to Monegasque nationals on a reciprocal basis.

If this proof is drafted in a foreign language, a translation into French must be provided with it.

Power of attorney

If you need to be represented by an agent in order to complete the formalities involved in filing directly at the Office, the arrangement must be formally set down in a power of attorney. 

For trademarks, the Office accepts only two types of powers of attorney: 

  • A general power of attorney, authorising the agent to represent you in procedures of any kind involving the Office.
  • A special power of attorney, authorising the agent to represent you for a specific purpose involving the Office.

NOTE: Step-by-step instructions on how to complete these powers of attorney can be found in the standard templates.

If the application is being filed by more than one party jointly, they must appoint an agent to represent all of them, who may be one of them or a third party.

The Office will issue a receipt in exchange for a general power of attorney, and will then accept copies of the receipt in lieu of a general power of attorney.

Permission

If your trademark includes reproductions or imitations of symbols, coats of arms, mottoes or official insignia of the State or Princely Family, your application must include a document indicating that you have permission from the competent authorities (original is required).

Regulations governing use of the mark

This document is required if you are registering a “collective” trademark.

If you do not produce a set of regulations, the sign will be registered as an ordinary trademark.