Registering a business???

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anybody know the cheapest place online to register a Trademark? I can only find 2 online application websites in SA, and they not cheap, lol.

I would not advise to do serious business on the cheap, unless you intend to sell cheap products such as balloons or popcorn.

You may also want to register your product and brand. I can recommend patent attorneys Adams & Adams. They have specialised divisions that can deal with your type of patent or industry and can offer advice on further registrations in foreign countries. They are not that expensive, initial R5k-R10k depending on the type of service you require. Registration in the USA can be R80k to R100k or more and then you still have no guarantee that they will not change a small feature and call it their own. Kreepy Krauley had many legal battles in the US which has different laws & applications for its 51 states.

If you want to play with the lions, you must act like a lion!

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Regarding the Trademark, ensure that it is in the name of the Company and not the individual directors. The Trademark process takes approx 3 yrs from start to finish and CIPC are supposed to issue the registration certificates within 90 days of non objections onced advvertising has taken place but in reality it takes longer than that. The cheapest way is via CIPC themselves or get a consultant (Not a lawyer or patent Co- Adams & Adams Charge R1500 just to do a search is the old days - when it only cost R85) to do it for you. Basically it is just an admin procedure. We have threr trademarks ourselves. Our Tagline. Our concept name and our logo. You may have to disclaim certain names if you trademark a tagline. i.e We trademarked our tagline Dare!to be remarkable and we had to disclaim the word "remarkable" as it was a general use term.