Cetmos - Your Gateway to the East

The idea is simple: instead of sending national companies to the various countries of Eastern Europe and leaving them up to their own fate with regard to trademark laws, as before, companies can now organise ONE common search in currently nine countries (Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia) at a mouse-click using a simple form on the Internet platform www.cetmos.eu. The complicated process is dealt with by the patent offices in Hungary and Austria. The company will receive the result within four to six weeks. This is a significant facilitation, in particular for SMEs, which in 2008 was even considered by the EU Commission to be worth a special award: within the scope of the European Charter for Small Enterprises, CETMOS was elected as one of only three “Charter Stars” throughout Europe. The reason: CETMOS is a cooperation that works well across and beyond national borders and thus connects the relevant aspects of internationalisation and the reduction of bureaucratic obstacles for SMEs in an exemplary manner.

This award encourages us of course and is equally an incentive to gain even more countries from the CEE area for the cooperation, jointly with our partners, so as to raise the attractiveness of CETMOS for the economy even further.