Q: I need to setup a trademark for my new company. Can you please help?

Q: Hello. For an online portal similar to Dubizzle, Souq.com, Jadopado (major difference being instead of buying and selling, people will be renting stuff), what would be the class to select when applying for Trademark protection? and which services should be selected from this class? Thank you.

Q: Hi, We are a UK company that is expanding our sales into the UAE and we would like a quote for getting a trademark to cover our product there. We have a trademark granted for Europe for our logo, our name and the term Subsound - https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/owners/664820 We also have a registered trademark covering our design. In the USA we have a trademark granted on our logo and the term Subsound and we expect to have a trademark granted on our name within a couple of months. Please let me know what further information you require in order to give us a quote for getting a trademark in the UAE? You can contact me on grainne.ryan@cocoon.life or +44(0) 7954 130662 This is an urgent request so I would appreciate a speedy reply. Thanks

Q: Hi. I am looking for help for 2 parts for our company: 1- We would like to register our company logo and brand services as a trademark 2- Once we have completed that, we would like to get certain misleading domain either cancelled or transferred to us through ICANN Please let us know the process here in the forum and cost in a Private Message. Then we can discuss in detail.

Q: If someone is bringing cargo OEM pack and put their brand name and model number by removing the original brand name and model number, will it be against the copyright law/ trademark law/ IP law?

Q: Hi, I own a free zone company and have activities like general trading, advertising, placement service and import/export. My question is can I have one main company logo and four different logos for individual activities for marketing purposes?

Q: Hi, Can a person take your domain name and company trade name by registering a trademark with the same name, or do I have a trademark name to avoid such? Thanks

Q: Dear Sir/Madam, What is the process for patenting my jewelry designs in the UAE, Dubai?

Q: Hi, I have two companies with the same activity. Can I use one company's logo for the other? The owner is the same, but the sponsor is different.

Intellectual Property! The concept seems to some individuals to represent an ambiguous abstraction. To others it represents incongruity. But for many, without a doubt, Intellectual Property (IP) is a potent tool. IP is an intangible asset and is a legal concept for which rights are recognised for the human mind’s creativity. Under this specialised law, owners are granted rights to diverse intangible assets such as inventions, words, phrases, symbols, designs, artistic works and such.

As the need arose to create laws for the protection of personal properties like movable and immovable assets and regulation of transferring their rights of ownership, it had also become crucial to regulate the intellectual property rights as in artistic and literary works, inventions, companies' logos and products/services...etc. Seeking to protect such rights requires a basic knowledge about their origin and significance.

Trademark is a type of intellectual property that is used as a means of identification of the business. It can be any word, figure, signature... etc. that can be used to either distinguish the goods and services or to indicate its origin. In this article, we introduce the requirements, procedures and timeline for trademark registration.

UAE Trademark Law creates the legal framework for the protection of registered trademarks in the UAE. The law includes the definition of trademark, signs that cannot be registered as trademarks, registration and cancellation procedures, sanctions for unlawful use of trademarks, and so on.

This Ministerial Decision regulates the implementation of the provisions of the UAE Trademark Law. It determines classes of goods and services and sets up the procedures for registration, renewal, modification, cancellation, licensing, transfer of ownership and mortgage of trademarks.

The UAE Copyright Law provides protection to authors of the works and owners of related rights in case of violation of their rights within the United Arab Emirates. Protection of the law does not include ideas, procedures, work methods, mathematical concepts, abstract principles and facts, but however extends to the innovative expression of any thereof.

The provisions of this Federal Decree-Law, known as the "New Copyright Law", govern Copyright regulations in the United Arab Emirates. The New Copyright Law repeals the previous UAE Copyright Law (Federal Law No. (7) of 2002 On Copyrights and Related Rights).

The provisions of this Federal Decree-Law, known as the "New Trademarks Law", govern Trademarks regulations in the United Arab Emirates. The New Trademarks Law repeals the previous UAE Trademarks Law (Federal Law No. (37) of 1992 Concerning Trademarks).