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

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: I am starting a new Italian Apparel brand which will be sold through eCommerce. I will be dealing with designers as freelancers and manufacturing companies based in Italy. I would need advice on the below: Where can I register the trademark of the company logo? I also want to be the sole owner of the bought designs, shall I register these as trademarks also? For the above, I need help drafting agreements with the designers, out of the UAE, that also states a non-disclosure clause. Also, I will sign agreements with manufacturers located in Italy. Which court will govern these agreements? Will the registered trademarks have a territory limitation? Since the business is online, design can easily be copied. I am building my online platform and will need legal advice regarding the privacy of the data which will be collected from customers, terms and conditions of the online platform and other risks that should be avoided.

Q: Hi Mohammed, This is Weihua from China. We want to register a trademark, and we already have a company in the UAE. Can we know the price for registering a trademark? And what documents do we need to provide you? Thank you very much. Regards Weihua

Q: Hi: We are from China. My client wants to register a trademark in the UAE and he is from China too, but he has a company in the UAE. How much does it cost to register a trademark in the UAE, and what documents do we need?

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.

With the introduction of the new procedures for obtaining a power of attorney (POA) remotely in the UAE, after it was mandatory to appear in person in front of the notary public as a global rule to ensure the identity and intention of the person requesting a POA, we put between your hands this brief guide for how you get it done.

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 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).