Step 1: Identify your brand  Choose the format of your mark (verbal, graphic, etc.). Identify the exact products and services that will distinguish your brand.    Step 2: Availability check (Optional stage) Once you've chosen your brand, and the products or services it will distinguish, some research should be done. The search is carried out in the Trademark Registries in order to determine whether similar marks for the products or services you wish to register with your mark are already registered by third parties.   Step 3: Submission of your application before the Industrial Property Organization OBI)   Step 4: Wait for OBI approval You will receive notification of either approval or rejection of the trademark application. The Trademark Service checks whether the declaration meets the formal conditions and then a competent examiner checks the trademark for reasons of absolute inadmissibility and issues his decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the declaration.  If, after examination, all conditions for acceptance of the trademark application are met, then the application is accepted and the relevant decision is published on the OBI website. From the date of the publication of acceptance of the trademark and for the period of the following three months, a third party may file an objection against the trademark. If there is no opposition or if the opposition is resolved in your favor, your mark will be registered   Step 5: Renew your badge After registration, the protection of a trademark has a duration of 10 years and this period of protection starts from the day following the date on which the trademark was filed. Six months before the end of the decade, the owner of the trademark is given the opportunity to renew it for another decade. The term of protection of a trademark is unlimited as it is renewed every ten years.