The
Registration Procedures:
The mark in all its stages:
1- Present an application to examine a trade
mark (application to examine a trademark
form by the registration applicant).
2- The registrar orders to investigate to be
sure if there is or there is not a mark
(similar, identical or close) to the
registered marks or the marks presented by
applications under consideration.
3- Present an application to register the
mark ( an application to register a mark
form )
4- The registrar orders to search within the
marks registered with him and the mark
presented by applications under
consideration of the types and the materials
requested to be registered for the presented
mark by an application to be sure that there
is no a mark identical or similar to the
presented mark to the degree that results an
ambiguity.
5- After the completion of the search the
registrar informs the applicant of the
absolute or restricted acceptance.
6- The registrar in the case of initial
acceptance of the mark has to announce in
three successive issues of the trademarks
and geographical indications bulletin and
person concerned may present to the
registrar within 90 days of the last
announcement a written notification of his
objection to register the mark.
7- The owner of the mark will be granted, as
soon as the completion of its registration,
a certificate includes the data stated in
the bulletin mentioned before.
8- If the mark wasn’t registered within ( 6
months ) from the date of the application
because a default of the applicant , the
registrar may inform him in writing to
complete its registration within the period
stated in the regulation issued according to
this law otherwise he was considered as
abandoned of registration application .
- The registration procedures may start from
the stage No. 1 or no. 3
- The ownership of the trademark may be
transferred (mark ownership transfer
application form), mortgaged or attached
(Mark mortgage, attachment application form)
with the commercial store or that part of
the commercial store connected between the
use and what it indicates to.
- The mark is transferred according to the
commercial store ownership unless agreed
otherwise and if the commercial store
ownership was transferred without the mark
,the ownership transferor has the right to
continue in the production of the products
the mark registered on , and trading with
them unless agreed upon contrary with that
- The cancelled mark is not registered again
by the name of other than its owner for the
same period unless at least one year passed
from the date of its cancellation.
- The registration cancellation and its
renewal must be announced according to the
way decided by the regulation.
- The registrar may perform any amendment on
the register if this amendment requires to
correct a mistake or to fill some disturbing
void , when it is approved what justifies
that ;
- The mark owner may grant a licenses ( mark
licensees application form ) any natural
individual or more or an artificial entity
to use his mark on all or some of the
products on which the mark registered, this
given license is not granted to other than
the owner to use the mark unless otherwise
agreed upon.
- It is not stipulated to prove the legality
of the mark or the adherence of the right in
it towards the other the transfer record or
the license of the mark transferred or
licensed to him.
- The protection period of the mark is ten
years renewable (mark renewal application
form) for the same period according to an
application presents during the last year
and according to the following regulations
after paying the imposed fees.
- The mark owner may apply to renew it
within six months after its termination in
exchange of paying the imposed
fees and the additional fees fixed in the
regulations otherwise the registrar may
cancel the mark from the register
- The registrar, according to the
application form presented by the owner of
the registered mark on the
Basis
of the decided form:
1- To correct any mistake in the mark owner
registered name or his address ( mark owner
name changing application for ) or the owner
address
2- To register any change happens to the
registered individual name or the mark owner
address
3- To cancel what he wishes of the goods on
which the trademark was registered .( mark
registered material & types cancellation
application form )
4- To register any abandonment or any
memorandum related to a mark if the
abandonment or that memo. Doesn’t increase
the rights that authorized by the
registration of that mark.
5- To cancel the registration of any mark
written down in the register in his name (
mark cancellation applicationform )
