BrandCat now includes trademark monitoring for Sweden through PRV, the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (Patent- och registreringsverket).
Swedish records support trademark-name search and similarity matching, owner and representative monitoring, and full-text Goods & Services search and watches. You can review the results alongside the other offices in your BrandCat dashboard.
Why PRV matters alongside EUIPO and WIPO
Sweden has its own national trademark system. In 2025, PRV received 6,921 national trademark applications, up 7.8% from 2024, and recorded 5,277 national trademark registrations. The office also received 944 international designations seeking protection in Sweden through the Madrid System.
For register size, WIPO's 2024 Sweden profile reports 111,058 trademarks in force at the Swedish office. This is a separate measure from annual applications or registrations, and it does not include the EU trademarks administered by EUIPO.
National PRV filings, EU trademarks, and Madrid registrations are different routes to protection. Adding PRV brings the Swedish national layer into the same monitoring workflow as your EUIPO and WIPO watches.
Sources: PRV Statistics Yearbook 2025, pp. 18-19 and WIPO's Sweden statistical profile, 2024.
Swedish trademark matches in the BrandCat results view
Select Sweden in the trademark-office filter to review Swedish matches. The list shows trademark names, owners and representatives, Nice classes, Goods & Services excerpts, application and registration numbers, filing dates, and status.
In the examples below, we'll use PEUGEOT for a trademark-name watch and cell culture media for a Goods & Services monitor. The first looks for matching or similar trademark names; the second finds records through the products and services described in their specifications.
For an automotive name watch, Class 12 (Vehicles) is a useful starting point. BrandCat shows both the filing's full Nice-class list and the classes it has in common with your watch, so the relevant overlap is visible directly in the results.
Use the date controls to distinguish when a trademark was filed from when BrandCat found the match. This is especially useful when reviewing historical records after adding a new office.
Full PRV record details, with English Goods & Services
Opening a result shows the available application and registration numbers, status, mark type, filing, registration and expiry dates, applicant or holder, representatives, and Nice classes.
Goods & Services descriptions are grouped by class. BrandCat displays an English translation where available and keeps the original wording available for comparison.
This PEUGEOT example is an international registration present in PRV's register. That context remains visible in the record, alongside its holder and representative information.
Goods & Services monitoring works for Sweden too
Swedish coverage also includes searching and monitoring the Goods & Services text. A filing can therefore appear in your results even when neither the trademark name nor its owner resembles a brand you already know.
For an automotive product watch, you could follow car and automobile in separate monitors and keep them in the same watch group. For laboratory or biotechnology products, our usual example is cell culture media.
In Entity Search, enter the term, select Goods / Services under Search in fields, and choose your match mode and Nice classes. Untick Owner / Applicant if you only want to search the specification text.
Our Goods & Services monitoring guide walks through cell culture media, using Contains matching and classes 1, 5, and 10. The same workflow works with Swedish PRV records; select Sweden when reviewing the results.
A wording match that an exact phrase could miss
The Swedish record below is for HY-FISH, owned by MARUHACHI MURAMATSU, INC. Its English Class 5 description includes:
media for cell cultures
The monitored term is cell culture media. The wording uses a different word order and a plural form, illustrating the value of flexible, fuzzy matching when searching product descriptions.
You would not need to know the name HY-FISH or already be watching its applicant to discover this record. The product description brings it into the results.
This particular record is historical and expired. It demonstrates the wording match; status and date filters let you focus the review on the activity relevant to your watch.
A register going back to 1885
PRV's database includes historical records dating back to 1885, as well as national applications, international registrations designating Sweden, and records that are no longer in force.
Yes, eighteen eighty-five. Swedish trademark paperwork had quite a head start on BrandCat. :-)
PRV's database coverage explains the historical scope and the separation from EU trademarks.
The same watch, report, and review workflow
Swedish records fit into BrandCat's existing portfolios, watch groups, filters, alerts, and reports. Combine trademark-name watches with company or representative monitoring and Goods & Services terms, then export the relevant results as HTML, PDF, CSV, or Excel.
Sweden PRV is now available in BrandCat trademark monitoring.
Trademark monitoring: https://brandcat.io/features-trademark-monitoring
Sweden PRV office page: https://brandcat.io/features-trademark-monitoring/office/prv-sweden
Goods & Services guide: https://brandcat.io/guides/monitor-goods-and-services-in-trademark-filings
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