Register a trade mark for a clothing brand

Registering a clothing brand can be done via BOIP or EUIPO

Registering a clothing brand follows the same principle as any other trade mark: if you come up with a name or logo but do not secure it, you have no rights to it. Someone else can later register the same name or a confusingly similar logo themselves, and then the tables are turned. A clothing brand is therefore registered like any other trade mark via BOIP for the Benelux or via EUIPO for the entire European Union. Which of the two is appropriate depends on where the clothing is now sold or will be sold in the future.

The application must include a classification in the correct classes of the Nice Classification. Clothing falls within that system under its own class, and depending on the product range, related classes are often also included, for example for footwear, accessories or for the retail of clothing itself. Which classes exactly correspond to a specific clothing