How to register a trademark

FREE TRADE ZONES

UAE is the best place to start up a business. Basically UAE free zones are designed for various business industries that import all their categories and offers licenses to companies and entities within those classifications. Each free zone is particularly differentiated and managed by separate Independent Free Zone Authority and this authority is responsible for all the legal activities taking place there including the service of issuing business permits and licenses, employee visa and regulating the business requirements. Each Free zone has their own rules and regulations also the provisions related to Commercial Companies Law do not apply to Free Zones. Dubai free zone assist you to the process of the trademarking here, let us have an Overview how to register a Trademark process in Dubai:

1. Filing trade mark application – Simply in UAE, a trade-mark is initially registered by filing an application with the Ministry of Economy along with the necessary charges are applicable for each trade-name applied. The main factor here to implement is the trade name should not be an existing anywhere in UAE.

1. Initial Examination procedure – As we have already seen in the previous procedure the existence of identical trade-name in any part of UAE is examined by the trademark Registry to avoid the rejection of application from the trademark office. When any existing trade mark seems to be get registered for the successive procedures is fraudulence.
2. Publication – In the positive scenario when the application accepted by the trademark office through the Trademark Registry, then it is published in the Trademark bulletin. Also it is a rule to publish the same in two local daily Arabic newspapers at the expense of the applicant. The cuttings of the newspaper notices shall be submitted to the Office.
3. Opposition – The case of publishing in the journal, the objection part begins over here. It means that if there is any objection for any party who is having any issues with the trademark can file an opposition within 30 days from the last publication date. These oppositions are raised only by the one who have some confusion with the existing brand name. If there are no opposition proceedings then the application can be considered for certification.
4. Registration –Completing the opposition period the Registrar of trademark will issue a Certificate of registration.
5. Renewal – By the name itself it can be understood that after getting registered Trademark it validity is for Ten years from the date of application. You can renew it for another 10 years. Renewal can be done during the 10th year. A grace period of three months will be allowed for late renewal with a fine.

After analyzing the above steps for the Trademark registration process, it is important to know about the general advantages of the UAE free zones:

1. Complete foreign ownership is allowed
2. Complete returning of capital and profits possible
3. No personal or corporate income taxes, customs duties, import/export taxes
4. Only few restrictions for labor recruitment.