**IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BUSINESSES TRADING WITHIN THE EU**

Big Reduction in Community Trade Mark (CTM) Registration fees

Since 1 May, the filing fee will rose to Euro 900 but the registration fee of Euro 850 has been abolished. In total, this represents a drop of more than 40% in the official fees.

There has never been a better time to protect marks across all 27 members of the EU via the CTM route. MW Trade Marks is providing free quotes. Our fees are already very competitive and we are also offering 10% discount to our filing fee for applications filed before 1 July 2009. For bulk filings we are ready to discuss additional discounts.

A CTM covers all 27 states of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom)

Contact Jon Wyness ( jon@mwtrademarks.com or +44(0)207 0252375 ) for more information or to take advantage of these significant cost savings.