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 application form )