Trademark Cancellation Requests
If you want to cancel another trademark proprietors trademark we are able to help you.
The application for cancellation of a trademark from the register of a Patent and Trademark Office is available for everyone, not only for brand owners. The cancellation can be requested on the basis of absolute grounds for refusal, or failure to use the mark.
The absolute grounds of refusal include among others the lack of any distinctive character of the trademark for the goods and services, descriptive character or if the trademark registration has been made with bad faith (for unfair competition).
The request for cancellation due to non-use of the mark is only possible after the expiry of the five-year grace period (speaking for German and Community Trademarks).
We check on your behalf the trademark facts and assess the chances that the trademark can be successfully cancelled and submit the cancellation request on your behalf to the relevant trademark office.