Its been a couple of years but the process in the UK is very simple - check out http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-formsfees.htm http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-

Its been a couple of years but the process in the UK is very simple - check out http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-formsfees.htm http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-formsfees.htm for the various services plus they have some useful documents covering the basics. The IPO also offer a service where they charge you something like half price and tell you if something is trademarkable. I believe I paid around £80, filled in a form, and they wrote to me to tell me that the text I wanted to trademark was too common a phrase to be trademarked, and gave me a number so I could have a chat with the person who dealt with the application for any further questions.