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Required documents for filing a trademark application in EGYPT.

Notarized & Legalized power of attorneys up to Egyptian consulate. (One POA is enough for all applications in the same name of the applicant & POA can be submitted within six months without any additional fees).

A certified copy of the priority application, if priority is claimed (claiming priority can be made only within 6 months from the first filing date in a member state under Paris Convention).

Renewal of Trademark/Service Mark Registrations.

A Power of Attorney notarized & legalized up to the Egyptian Consulate.

General Information.

Classification of Goods / Services: International classification, multi-class filing as of 2007.

Claiming priority under Paris Convention: Yes.

Legal effect of trademark right: First to file.

Publication: Official Trademark Gazette.

Opposition period: 2 month.

Registration duration: 10 years from filing date.

Renewal duration: 10 years.

Renewal application: Within 12 months before expiry.

Required documents for filing PCT Patent Application in Egypt.

Legalized Power of Attorney up to the Egyptian consulate.

(POA can be submitted late within 4 months without any additional charges).

Copy of the search report and the Preliminary Examination Report.

Copy of the PCT publication.

Required documents for filing Priority (12 month) Patent Application in Egypt.

Legalized Power of Attorney up to the Egyptian consulate (POA can be submitted late within 4 months without any additional charges).

Legalized incorporation certificate/business license up to the Egyptian consulate (can be submitted late within 3 months without any additional charges).

Legalized deed of assignment up to the Egyptian consulate (can be submitted late within 3 months without any additional charges).

Certified copy from the priority documents.

Required documents for filing an industrial design application in EGYPT.

Legalized power of attorneys up to Egyptian consulate.

The commercial register of company/person legalized up to Egyptian consulate.

A certified copy of the priority application; if priority is claimed (claiming priority can be made only within 6 months from the first filing date in a member state under Paris Convention).

  The time frame required to have a Design registered in Egypt ranges between 14 to 16 months in the normal cases.

The protection periods ten years start of the date of filing the Design. 

Annuity the protection shall be extended for a further period of five years when the owner of the industrial design applies for a renewal within the last year of the protection period. The owner may, however, apply for a renewal of the registration within three months after the expiry of the protection period, failing to do so, the Department shall automatically revoke the registration.

You must specify the legal reason for why you are allowed to federally register your trademark. This is known as a filing basis. There are multiple filing bases and you must satisfy all the legal requirements for the filing basis that you choose. The most common are use in commerce and intent to use. Learn about the different types of filing bases and the requirements for each.

Use in commerce vs. Intent to use

Although “use in commerce” and “intent to use” are two types of filing bases, they have different meanings and requirements.

Use in commerce

Use in commerce means using your trademark in selling or transporting your goods out of state or in providing services to customers who live outside your state.

To register your trademark, you’ll need to provide evidence that you’re using it in commerce. This means you’ll need to submit a specimen showing how you use your trademark. You’ll also need to provide the date you first used your trademark in commerce and the date you first used it anywhere.

Intent to use

Intent to use means that you haven’t started using your trademark in commerce, but you have a bona fide intent to do so within the next three to four years.

Although you can apply to register your trademark with an intent-to-use basis, you cannot actually register your trademark until you show that you’ve started using it in commerce and you file the proper TEAS form.

Innovation in the United States is highly concentrated—based on demographic characteristics, geography, and economic conditions—and underrepresented groups are not fully participating.

To protect your invention, you may need a patent, trademark, copyright, marketing plan, trade secrets, or some combination of these. Before you begin preparing a patent application, find out if you really need a patent or some other form of Intellectual Property protection.

There are three types of patents - Utility, Design, and Plant. 

1. Utility Patent: Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or compositions of matters, or any new useful improvement thereof. By far, most patent applications filed at the USPTO are utility applications.
2. Design Patent: Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
3. Plant Patent: Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.

ARIPO is mandated to register marks and the administration of such registered marks on behalf of the Banjul Protocol Contracting States in accordance with the provisions of the Banjul Protocol on Marks. The Banjul Protocol on Marks was adopted on November 19, 1993, at Banjul, The Gambia.

The Banjul Protocol establishes a trademark application filing system along the lines of the Harare Protocol. An applicant may file a single application either at one of the Banjul Protocol Contracting States or directly with the ARIPO Office.  Since 1997, the protocol has been extensively revised in order to make it compatible with the TRIPs Agreement and the Trademark Law Treaty as well as make it more user-friendly.

ARIPO is mandated to grant patents on behalf of the Harare Protocol Contracting States in accordance with the provisions of the Harare Protocol on Patents, Designs and Utility Models. The Harare Protocol was adopted on December 10, 1982 at Harare, Zimbabwe. The protocol entered into force in 1984.

Under the protocol, an applicant for the grant of a patent for an invention can, by filing only one application, designate any one of the Harare Protocol Contracting States in which that applicant wishes the invention to be accorded protection. The protocol requires the filing of the application to be made with any one of the Contracting States or directly with the ARIPO Office.

ARIPO is empowered to register and administer designs on behalf of the Harare Protocol Contracting States in accordance with the provisions of the Harare Protocol on Patents, Designs and Utility Models. The Harare Protocol was adopted on December 10, 1982 at Harare, Zimbabwe. The protocol entered into force in 1984.

Under the protocol, an applicant for a design can be done by filing only one application, designate any one of the Harare Protocol Contracting States in which that applicant wishes the design to be accorded protection. The protocol requires the filing of the application to be made with any one of the Contracting States or directly with the ARIPO Office.