What is the cheapest way to register a name of the company as a trade mark name?
Fairfax is partly right in his answer to you, but is quite wrong when he/she stated a company name cannot be registered as a trade mark. If you are a business and wish to register your company name as a Trade Mark you CAN indeed do this. Think about “Nike” or “Coca-Cola” or “Apple”. They are all company names and registered trade marks. Anything that anybody wants to become a registered trade mark must however be registrable. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) have trade mark examiners who take certain things into consideration when deciding to accept or reject a trade mark application. These considerations are laid down in The Trade Marks Act 1994. However, if it is your company name, and it is a name you use in trade then you shouldn’t have a problem registering it. It currently costs £200 for a trade mark application; you can get the ball rolling by visiting http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-os/t-os-forms/tm3-introduction/tm3-servicesfees.htm in the first place. It should be note
