2013 Maryland Code
BUSINESS REGULATION
§ 1-406 - Applications for registration

§1-406.

(a) An applicant for registration of a mark shall:

(1) submit to the Secretary of State:

(i) an application on the form that the Secretary of State provides; and

(ii) 3 specimens or reproductions of the mark; and

(2) pay to the Secretary of State a fee of $50.

(b) An application shall be signed, under oath:

(1) for an individual, by the individual;

(2) for a partnership, by a partner; or

(3) for a corporation or association, by an officer of the corporation or association.

(c) In addition to any other information required on an application form, the form shall require:

(1) the name of the applicant;

(2) the business address of the applicant;

(3) for an applicant that is a corporation, the state of incorporation;

(4) the goods or services with which the applicant uses the mark;

(5) the way the applicant uses the mark with the goods or services;

(6) the class under § 1-405 of this subtitle to which the goods or services belong;

(7) the date when the applicant or the applicant’s predecessor in business:

(i) first used the mark anywhere; and

(ii) first used the mark in the State; and

(8) a statement that:

(i) the applicant owns the mark;

(ii) another person does not have the right to use the mark in the State; and

(iii) the mark is not deceptively similar to a mark that another person has a right to use in the State.

(d) A single application for registration of a mark:

(1) may cover use of the mark with any number of goods or services in a single class; but

(2) may not cover use of the mark with goods or services in different classes.