How much does it cost to register a trademark in Ukraine? The honest answer is that the cost comes in two layers, and the total depends mostly on how many classes you file in. Here is the breakdown the way we actually quote it, with real figures — so you can budget before you start.

The rest of this page explains what goes into that number.

The two layers of cost

Every filing carries two kinds of cost. The first is the official fees paid to the Ukrainian office (UANIPIO) — set by regulation and charged per class. The second is the attorney’s fee for preparing the application, filing it, and seeing it through examination. A quote that mentions only one of these is not the full picture.

What drives the price

Three things move the number:

• The number of Nice classes. The €450 professional fee and the official filing fee are both for one class. Each additional class adds another official filing fee (around 3,600 UAH) and more of our work — a separate list of goods and services drafted for that class — so classes you do not really need are the commonest way to overpay. Note that adding more goods within a class you already have costs nothing extra; only new classes do.
• Colour. A mark filed in colour carries a small official surcharge (around 900 UAH); a black-and-white mark — whether word or figurative — does not.
• Whether an office action arises. If the examiner raises a provisional refusal, answering it is extra work. Most of our filings that receive one still register — but a proper reply has a cost.

When you pay

Payment falls at two points, not one. At filing you pay the official filing fee and our fee for preparing and lodging the application. At the end, once the mark has cleared examination, there are final fees for publication and issue of the certificate. Budgeting for both from the start avoids a surprise near the finish line.

How we quote foreign clients

For a standard single-class, black-and-white mark, our professional fee is €450, fixed in euro. It covers the whole job: the clearance search and opinion, preparing and filing the application, drafting the list of goods and services, and obtaining the certificate for you.

On top of that sit the official fees, set by the Ukrainian office and paid in hryvnia — roughly 3,600 UAH to file in one class, the same for each additional class, a small surcharge for a mark in colour, and publication and certificate fees at the end. Foreign applicants also pay a fixed state duty of $200 for the certificate. Because the official fees are set in hryvnia, the exact euro total moves a little with the National Bank rate.

You can put your own numbers in with the estimator on our fees page, or simply ask us for a firm quote.

Is the Madrid route cheaper?

If you are protecting a mark across several countries, designating Ukraine through the Madrid System can be more economical than a national filing, because you file once centrally. But the saving is on filing, not on problems: if the Ukrainian office issues a provisional refusal against your designation, answering it still requires a local representative and carries its own cost. For a single-country filing in Ukraine, a national application is usually the simpler route.