Registering your trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gives you trademark protection throughout the United States, but it does not protect your trademark in other countries. To protect your trademark abroad, you need to register it with the foreign countries where you want protection.
Step-by-Step Process of Trademark Registration in Myanmar Step 1: Conduct a Preliminary Trademark Search in Myanmar. Step 2: File the Trademark Application in Myanmar. Step 3: Examination by MIPD. Step 4: Publication and Opposition. Step 5: Registration and Issuance of Certificate of Trademark in Myanmar.
The duration of a registered mark, as stipulated under Section 34 in Myanmar's Trademark Law, shall be initially set at 10 years from the date of submission of the registration application.
The new trademark law introduces a first-to-file system; the trademarks registered under the new trademark law will be valid for 10 years from the filing date and renewable every 10 years. A priority claim will be also acceptable.