Qatari Trademark Office Speeds Up Registration Procedures
28 Mar 2007DOHA - The Qatari Trademark Registrar, Ahmed Al Juffairi, announced that the Trademark Office started on March 27, 2007, a new practice to speed up the prosecution of trademark applications, a Wednesday press release by Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) stated.
Under the directives of the Qatari Ministry of Economy and Commerce’s Secretary, Abdullah Al Qahtani, the time frame needed for completing the registration of a trademark is now minimized allowing all pending trademark applications to be processed into registration in a short period of time.
For this purpose, the Trademark Office has extended its working hours in order to accelerate the processing of all pending trademark applications.
As a result of this new procedure, all pending trademark applications (around 10,000) are expected to be examined within 6 to 8 months. In addition, all the newly filed trademark applications will be processed within a time frame of 8 to 12 months, instead of 3-5 years as the case was previously.
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