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United Arab Emirates Address
P.O. Box 14159 Dubai United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971 4 3687393
Fax: +971 4 3687412
Contact Person: Nazeer Al Kharouf
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Street Address
Office 2201, 22nd Floor, The Prism Tower, Business Bay, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
General Information
- Classification - 10th edition — single class filing. Class 33, alcoholic goods in class 32, and pork meat in class 29 cannot be registered
- Search - Possible for word marks ONLY
- Examination – Formality and substantive
- Opposition period - 30 days from last publication date
- Extension of time - Not possible for filing oppositions, counter oppositions, and responding to office actions
- Term of protection - 10 years from filing date and renewable for similar periods
- Use - Mark is vulnerable to cancellation action by interested parties if there is no bona fide use of the mark for a period of 5 consecutive years from registration date
Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate. Should be filed along with the application.
- In case of claiming priority, a certified copy of the corresponding home or foreign application.
Renewal
- Power of Attorney duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the U.A.E. Certificate of Registration
Assignment
- Power of Attorney from the Assignee duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Deed of Assignment, signed by both parties, legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the U.A.E. Certificate of Registration.
Change of Name and/or Address
- Power of Attorney in the new name and /or address duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Change of Name or Address duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the U.A.E. Certificate of Registration.
Merger
- Power of Attorney from the entity surviving the merger, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Merger duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the U.A.E. Certificate of Registration.
License
- Power of Attorney from the licensee duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the License Agreement duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the U.A.E. Certificate of Registration.
Customs Recordal
- Power of attorney legalized.
- Certified copy of the registration certificate.
- CD containing the details and features of the genuine products for allowing the Customs Officers to distinguish between original and counterfeit products.
General Information
- Search – Searches may be done by title, patentee name and PCT number at the patent office
- Examination - Formality, novelty, inventiveness, industrial applicability, unity and compliance
- Publication - Applications are published upon grant
- Opposition period - 60 days from publication in the IP Bulletin issued by the Patent Office after acceptance
- Annuities - Paid annually on the anniversary of the international filing date, can also be paid on pending applications. 6 months grace period is allowed for late payment and the last 3 months of which are subject to a penalty. Restoration is applicable after the grace period.
- Term of protection - 20 years from filing date and 10 years from filing date for utility model
Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Deed of Assignment from the inventor(s)/designer(s), duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certified copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certified copy of the priority document, in case of claiming priority.
- Copy of the Search Report and Preliminary Examination Report of the corresponding PCT application and the Application as published; in case of entering a National Phase under the PCT scheme.
- Specification, claims, abstract in Word format and formal drawings, if any, in English and Arabic languages.
Assignment
- Power of Attorney, from the Assignee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Deed of Assignment signed by both Assignor and Assignee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate.
Change of Name and/or Address
- Power of Attorney, in the new name and/or address, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Change of Name and/or Address duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
Merger
- Power of Attorney, from the entity surviving the merger, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Merger duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
Licensing
- Power of Attorney, from the licensee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the License Agreement duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
General Information
- Term of protection - 10 years from filing date
- Examination - Formality, novelty, and industrial applicability
- 20 drawings are allowed provided they are interrelated
- Annuities – Are paid annually on the anniversary of the filing date. A 6 months grace period is allowed for late payment and the last 3 months of which are subject to a penalty. Restoration is applicable after the grace period.
- Renewal - Not possible
Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney legalized by the UAE Consulate.
- Extract for the Commercial Register or from the Memorandum of Association if the applicant is a company or body corporateduly legalized by the UAE Consulate.
- Two copies of the model of design if it is two-dimensional, or two copies of each view thereof if it is three-dimensional.
- Deed of assignment signed by the inventor if the applicant is not the inventor duly legalized by the UAE Consulate.
- Certified copy of the priority document (in case convention priority is to be claimed).
Assignment
- Power of Attorney, from the Assignee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Deed of Assignment signed by both Assignor and Assignee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
Change of Name and/or Address
- Power of Attorney, in the new name and/or address, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Change of Name and/or Address duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
Merger
- Power of Attorney, from the entity surviving the merger, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Certificate of Merger duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
Licensing
- Power of Attorney, from the licensee, duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the License Agreement duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
- Copy of the Extract from the Commercial Register or Articles of Incorporation duly legalized by the U.A.E. Consulate
General Information
- Registration - Possible for both nationals and foreigners
- Term of protection - Generally, the term of protection is the author’s life with the addition of 50 years, starting from the beginning of the calendar year following the author’s death
Works protected
Books, booklets, articles and other literature; computer software and applications, databases and similar works defined in a decision to be issued by the Minister; lectures, speeches, sermons and other works of similar nature; plays, musicals and pantomimes; musicals accompanied by dialogue and musicals which are not accompanied by dialogue; audio and video work or audio visual work; architectural work and architectural plans and drawings; work involving drawing, painting, sculpturing, etching, lithography, screen printing, relief and intaglio prints and other similar works of fine art; photographic work and the like; works of applied art and plastic art; charts, maps, plans, 3-D modeling for geographical and topographical applications and architectural designs etc.; derivative works, subject to the protection afforded to the work(s) upon which they are based. The protection shall extend to the title of the work if created as well as the creative concept devised for broadcast material.Registration Requirements
- Power of Attorney from the applicant, duly legalized up to the U.A.E. Consulate.
- Copy of the Identification documents of the applicant and author (who created the work).
- The subject of the work.
- Detailed statement of work specification.
- 10 copies of the work.
- Declaration of Assignment from the author to the applicant, to be legalized from UAE Consulate.
Software
A. 3 CD’s containing the following:
- The program to be registered (auto run folder).
- The Database for that program
- The code of the software (open source code)
- The full description of the program its content and usage. as (Microsoft word or Adobe format)
B- Power of Attorney notarized as per the attached. C- Passport copies of the applicants. D- Assignment from the programmer to the company, duly notarized.
Registration Requirements
- Authorization letter in the letterhead of the applicant addressed to U.A.E. Network Information Center authorizing SMAS-IP to register the domain name in U.A.E.
- Copy of the U.A.E. Trademark Registration Certificate, in case the requested Domain Name differs from the applicant's name.
- For Arabic IDN (. Emarat), trademark registration certificate in UAE or in any other Arab country for the Arabic Script.
Membership Of International Bodies
- World Intellectual Property Organisation
- World Trade Organisation
- GCC
- Berne Convention
- Paris Convention
- Rome Convention
- WIPO Copyright Treaty
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
- Patent Cooperation Treaty
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Deed Of Assignments (DS)
Deed Of Assignments (DS)Deed Of Assignments (DS)