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by zyx321 1773 days ago
You need to be registered with the national patent and trademark office in one of six participating countries. These databases are financed and maintained almost entirely by the brand owners. You as a brand owner need to do your own research to make sure that your logo is original, then you pay to be entered into the database, then you need to continuously audit any new entries into these databases to make sure that they don't infringe on your existing trademark.

So you provide the CA with an trademark ID number that they can look up and they verify that you represent the company that owns the trademark. It's like 10 minutes on top of the existing EV process, but it's more than double the price.