Procedures to register Industrial and Trade marks

specialized department: Intellectual Property Protection and Patent Rights Department

An application to be submitted to the specialized department containing the mark description and a list of products and services requested to register their marks; The specialized department, within a month from application receipt, a decree either approving the application or applying amendments on the mark in order to increase its clarity or to prevent its ambiguity with another mark or non-suitability for registration The applicant can protest the department’s decree, within one month from its communication, and the specialized department will take a decision in the protest, within one month, and its decision can still be protested in court within maximum one month from its communication.

The mark will be registered in the assigned register; A certificate of mark registration will be given to the applicant; Registration will be in force from the date of application submission, cases submission’s priority will be considered; Registration declaration to be made in accordance with the approved regulations; and Mark registration results in preventing others from its usage without the certificate registration holder’s approval. The registration protects the mark for ten years period starting from the effect registration’s date