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Everything You Need to Know about Patent, Trademark, Copyright Registration
- Who can register a trademark?
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According to the UAE law, the following persons can register their trademarks:
1. The UAE citizens and natural and artificial persons practising any commercial, industrial, professional or service business
2. Foreigners and natural and artificial persons practising any commercial, industrial, professional or service business
3. Foreigners and natural and artificial persons practising any commercial, industrial, professional or service business in any country on basis of reciprocity
4. Other artificial persons. - Trademark protection period and renewal
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The period of protection resulting from the registration of a Trademark is (10) ten years starting from the date of filing the application. Right holder has right to renew the protection for similar periods.
- Basic requirements for acquiring patent rights:
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• The invention must be industrially viable
• The invention must be new; it must not be known to the public before the filing date.
• The invention must involve an inventive step.
• The specifications must be drafted clearly with sufficient technical disclosure so that an ordinary person may understand the invention. - Intellectual works are protected under copyrights law:
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1. Books, booklets, articles and other literature
2. Computer software and applications, databases and similar works defined in a decision to be issued by the Minister of Economy
3. Lectures, speeches, sermons and other works of similar nature 4. Plays, musicals and pantomimes
5. Musicals accompanied by dialogues and musicals which are not accompanied by dialogue
6. Audio and video works or audio-visual works
7. Architectural work and architectural plans and drawings
8. Drawings, paintings, sculptures, etchings, lithography, screen printing, reliefs and intaglio prints and other similar works of fine art
9. Photographic work and the likes
10. Works of applied art and plastic art
11. Charts, maps, plans, 3-D modelling for geographical and topographical applications and architectural designs etc.
12. Derivative works, subject to the protection afforded to the work(s) upon which they are based. The protection shall extend to the title of the work, if created, as well as the creative concept devised for broadcast material.
- Patents that are not protected include:
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• Researches, plant and animal species, and biological methods for production of animal and plant excluding microbiological methods and their products
• Diagnostic methods, treatments and surgical operations needed for humans and animals
• Scientific and mathematical principles, discoveries and methods
• Guidelines, rules or methods followed to conduct business, perform mental activities or play games
• Invention that may lead to violation of public order or morals. - How Long Does Patent Protection Last?
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Patent shall be valid for twenty (20) years and utility certificate shall be valid for ten (10) years starting from the date of application submission.
Patent shall be valid for twenty (20) years and utility certificate shall be valid for ten (10) years starting from the date of application submission. Applicant or holder of patent or utility certificate shall pay annual fees applicable to the patent or utility certificate registration throughout the applicable duration of protection in accordance with the controls and procedures provided for in the Executive Regulations of UAE Law. - Duration of Industrial Design Protection.
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The protection of industrial design shall be valid for twenty (20) years starting from the date of protection application submission. Applicant or holder of industrial design shall pay annual fees applicable to the industrial design registration throughout the whole applicable duration of protection in accordance with the controls and procedures provided for in the Executive Regulations of UAE Law.
- Duration of protection in UAE copyright Law
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The economic rights of the author under this Law shall be protected for the duration of his life plus 50 years starting from the first day of the calendar year following his death. Economic rights of applied art works expires after 25 years, which start from the first day of the calendar year following their first publication.
