EU lowers application cost for EU-wide trademark</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="EU lowers application cost for EU-wide trademark"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="EU,lowers,application,cost,for,EU-wide,trademark"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">23-05-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>EU lowers application cost for EU-wide trademark</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_PKins2mPtzrDd5IRM3tB_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Brussels, Belgium (People's Daily): Those who want to register their trademark and design across the European Union (EU) will have their budget saved, the EU member states decided on Monday. […] The EU member states also decided to commission a study on the further development of the EU trademark system, which is still costly for applicants due to translation requirements. The present EU rules require trademark applications eventually to be translated into 20 languages, which increases the average cost for a five-year period protection to 1,700 euros (2,000 dollars), much higher than the average fee of 1,000 euros (1,200 dollars) in the USA. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200705/22/eng20070522_376591.html " target="blank">english.people.com.cn/200705/22/eng20070522_376591.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show