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 Younis, This is Weihua from China. We want to register a trademark in the UAE. We are from China, and we have a company in the UAE. So how much for the registration of a trademark in the UAE, and what do we need to provide you? Please email me back. Thank you very much!

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.

س: السلام عليكم، وجدت منتجًا يُباع في السوق عليه شعار مؤسستي وشعار المنشأة المُصنِّعة لهذا المنتج. لم يتم إعلامي بعملية البيع من قبل هذه المنشأة، مع العلم أنني كنت أتواصل مع صاحب المنشأة لحل إشكالية معينة ولكنه يتذرع بحجج بشكل مستمر. اشتريت من هذا المنتج ومعي الإيصال، وللأسف المنتج ليس بجيد كما هي بقية المنتجات، وسيجعل شعاري عرضة للإساءة. كيف لي مقاضاة هذه المنشأة؟ وهل هناك تعويض؟ بارك الله فيكم!

Q: We are currently reviewing trademark registration strategies for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and seeking expert confirmation on a specific matter. It is generally understood that registering a trademark in black and white in the UAE provides protection across all color variations of the logo. This approach aligns with international norms. While the UAE’s Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2021 on Trademarks does not explicitly state that black-and-white registrations cover all colors, this practice is widely accepted and typically adhered to by the UAE Ministry of Economy’s Intellectual Property department. Could you please confirm if a black-and-white trademark registration in the UAE indeed provides protection for all color variations of a logo, specifically regarding the broad protection scope covering the mark’s shape, design, and layout?

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.

تُعد العلامات التجارية من أهم أشكال الملكية الفكرية التي تحمي حقوق أصحاب الأعمال والشركات. فهي تمنحهم الحق في استخدام علامتها التجارية بشكل حصري في جميع أنحاء دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة إن كانت محمية في الدولة أو كانت الحماية إقليمية او دولية عند حمايتها بنظام مدريد وإيداع طلبات منفصلة في الدول المراد حمايتها. والحماية تعطي الحق الاستئثاري لمسجل العلامة التجارية ويمنع كل مَن سواه من الاستخدام. ويمكن بالحماية مقاضاة من يستخدم العلامة دون الحصول على إذن خطي من مالك العلامة التجارية.

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).