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Filing Requirements:

Trademarks: Sierra Leone


  Trademark Requirements:

  1. Power of attorney simply signed.  (Power Form)

  2. Full name, street address and description of the applicant (including trading style, if any, and sate country of incorporation, if incorporated).

  3. List of goods/services. Reasonably precise description of the goods and/or services on which it is used or to be used.

  4. For applications for cotton goods in classed 23, 24, and 25, proof of U.K. registration required.

  5. For U.K. extensions, certified copy of U.K. registration certificate required.

 

  Renewal Registrations:

  1. Simply signed power of attorney. (Power Form)

  2. For U.K. extensions, certified copy of U.K. registration certificate required.

 

 Change of Name/Address requirements:

  1. Simply signed power of attorney (under new name). (Power Form)

  2. Official certificate attesting the change of name.

 

  Assignment Requirements:

  1. Power of attorney signed by assignee. (Power Form)

  2. Deed of assignment, signed by both parties, stamped, sealed, notarized and legalized up to the consulate.

  3. Some consideration must be stated; nominal consideration is acceptable, no tax implications, no stamp duty, pending applications may be assigned, unregistered marks may be assigned, assignment must be made with the goodwill.

    4.

 

General Information:

Claiming priority under Paris Convention: Yes.

 

Registration Duration: 14 Years from the date of Application.

 

Time until Issuance of Registration: 3 Months

 

Renewal Application: Before expiry.

 

Classification of Goods / Services: SIERRA LEONE Classification based on the OLD BRITISH Classification of 50 classes multi-class filing.

  1. Chemical substances used in manufactures, photography, or philosophical research, and anti-corrosives.

  2. Chemical substances used for agricultural, horticultural, veterinary, and sanitary purposes.

  3. Chemical substances prepared for use in medicine and pharmacy.

  4. Raw, or partly prepared vegetable, animal and mineral substances used in manufactures not included in other classes.

  5. Unwrought and partly wrought metals used in manufacture.

  6. Machinery of all kinds, and parts of machinery, except agricultural and horticultural machines included in class 7.

  7. Agricultural and horticultural machinery, and parts of such machinery.

  8. Philosophical instruments, scientific instruments, and apparatus for useful purposes. Instruments and apparatus for teaching.

  9. Musical instruments.

  10. Horological instruments.

  11. Instruments, apparatus, and contrivances, not medicated, for surgical or curative purposes, or in relation to the health of men or animals.

  12. Cutlery and cdgcd tools.

  13. Metal goods, not included in other classes.

  14. Goods or precious metals (including aluminium, nickel, Britannia metal, etc.) and jewellery, and imitations of such goods and jewellery.

  15. Glass.

  16. Porcelain and earthenware.

  17. PManufactures from mineral and other substances for building or decoration.

  18. Engineering, architectural and building contrivances.

  19. Arms, ammunition and stores, not included in Class 20.

  20. Explosive substances.

  21. Naval architectural contrivances and naval equipment not included in classes 19 and 20.

  22. Carriages: -

    1. Cotton yarn and sewing cotton not on spools or reels.

    2. Sewing cotton on spools or reels.
       

  23. Cotton piece goods of all kinds.

  24. Cotton goods not included in Classes 23, 24 or 38.

  25. Linen and hemp yarn and thread.

  26. Linen and hemp piece goods.

  27. Linen and hemp goods not included in Classes 26, 27 and 50.

  28. Jute yarn and tissues and other materials made of jute, not included in class 50.

  29. Silk spun, thrown or sewing.

  30. Silk piece goods.

  31. Other silk goods not included in Classes 30 and 31.

  32. Yarns of wool.

  33. Cloths and stuffs of wool, worsted or hair.

  34. Woolen, worsted and hair goods not included in Classes 33 and 34.

  35. Carpets, floor-cloth and oil-cloth.

  36. Leather, skins, unwrought and wrought, and articles made of leather, not included in other classes.

  37. Articles of clothing.

  38. Paper (except paper hangings) stationery and bookbinding.

  39. Goods manufactured from India-rubber and gutta-percha, not included in other classes.

  40. Furniture and upholstery.

  41. Substances used as food or as ingredients in food.

  42. Fermented liquors and spirits.

  43. Mineral and aerated waters, natural and artificial, including ginger beer.

  44. Tobacco, whether manufactured or unmanufactured.

  45. Seeds for agricultural and horticultural purposes.

  46. Candles, common soap, detergents, illuminating, heating or lubricating oils, matches, starch, blue, and other preparations for laundry purpose.

  47. Perfumery (including toilet articles, preparations for the teeth and hair, and perfumed soap.

  48. Games of all kinds and sporting articles, not included in other classes.

  49. Miscellaneous: -

  • Goods manufactured from ivory, bone or wood, not included in other classes.

  • Goods manufactured from straw or grass, not included in other classes.

  • Goods manufactured from animal and vegetable substances, not included in other classes.

  • Tobacco pipes.

  • Umbrellas, walking sticks, brushes and combs.

  • Furniture cream, plate powder.

  • Tarpaulins, tents, rick-cloths, rope and twins.

  • Button of all kinds, other than of precious metal or imitations thereof.

  • Goods not included in the foregoing classes.

 

 
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