New Practices for Trademark Registration in Qatar
11 Feb 2006DOHA - With the participation of major intellectual property agents, including Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP), Qatari Trademark Registrar, Ahmed Yusuf Al Juffairi, held a meeting on February 9, 2006 to discuss the new practices and mechanisms concerning trademark registration process in Qatar.
According to a press release by AGIP, the new practices, which will be applied as of March 9, 2006, incorporate the following:
- New trademark applications and recordals are to be filed with the needed documents. No applications will be accepted without full documents.
- New trademark applications will be examined and the examination report will be issued within six months from the filing date. At the same time, pending applications filed since May 2002 will also be examined and finalized.
- Once a trademark application is examined and the examination report is issued, either with condition or without condition, publication of the same is to be arranged within six months.
According to Al Juffairi, such practices will certainly contribute to streamlining and speeding-up the trademark registration process in Qatar, which will ensure stronger protection for Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and attracting foreign investments to the country.
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