This new role enables SAIP to offer its services to applicants from around the world, further enhancing international confidence in Saudi Arabia’s intellectual property system. By providing advanced services locally, SAIP also simplifies procedures for Saudi inventors and innovators, fostering innovation and supporting intellectual property rights protection.

This achievement marks a significant milestone in Saudi Arabia’s journey towards leadership in intellectual property. It underscores the Kingdom’s commitment to promoting innovation and protecting inventors’ rights, which aligns with its developmental aspirations.

For more information, please contact saudi-arabia@qumsieh.com.

The new rates went into effect on 22 February 2023.

For more information, please contact egypt@qumsieh.com.

Application for Registration
It is now obligatory to lodge a request for examination for trademarks before filing an application. If the examination result is positive, applicants may submit an application for registration accompanied with the examination report where the application will then be accepted and proceed to publication immediately.

If the examination result was negative, applicants can still file an application for registration and then appeal the refusal decision before the court.

Examination
Examination time for a trademark application is six (6) months. The home registration certificate must be submitted for applications designating class 5 with subclass (a) within 6 months of the filing date. Failing to provide said document, the application will be cancelled and applicants will have to file a new application. Iraq follows a multi-class filing system where each class is divided to subclasses; class 5 subclass (a) covers pharmaceutical and veterinary preparations and sanitary preparations for medical purposes.

Recordal Applications
Recordal transactions on pending trademarks are no longer accepted. In order to file an application to record an assignment, change of name, change of address, or merger, the trademark must be registered with a valid registration certificate.

For independent searches, the applicant’s full address should be provided; otherwise, the search request will be denied.

For more information, please contact iraq@qumsieh.com.

Accordingly, each applicant or its agent should submit a request for substantive examination with respect to applications formally accepted in the year 2013-2014 within two months from the date of the notification, i.e. 21 September 2016. Said request should be accompanied by a payment of the examination fees of OMR300 (equivalent to USD780) and a photocopy of the completed formalities, which includes the application form as submitted including any amendments to the specifications, description, abstract, claims, and drawings in Arabic and English languages, as well as a photocopy of the first page of the application for publication purposes.

Failure to submit said request on or before 21 November 2016, the patent application will be considered cancelled in accordance with article 9 (5) a and b of the Industrial Property Law no. 67/2008.

This comes as a result of the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Omani and the Egyptian Patent Offices, where the Egyptian Patent Office acts as the examining office for all pending and new patent applications filed in Oman.

For more information, please contact oman@qumsieh.com.

Therefore, it is requested to attend to the payment of examination fees as follows:

• The examination fees for valid applications filed during the years 2011, 2012, and 2013 must be paid within 90 days from the date of this circular, i.e. before 24 December 2014.
• The examination fees for new applications filed after 1 November 2014, must be paid together with the filing fees or upon completing the required document since late submitting of documents of 90 days is permissible.

Please note that regulations regarding the applications filed between 1 January and 31 October 2014 have not yet been issued.

If you have any questions, please contact us at uae@qumsieh.com.

Accordingly, any applications with missing documents is required to be completed within 3 months from the above mentioned date, otherwise the application will be treated as abandoned.

For more information please contact bahrain@qumsieh.com.

Accordingly, there will be an exchange of practices between both patent offices, and the Egyptian Patent Office (EGPO) will host researchers from the Oman Patent Office (OPTO) for training in substantive examination of patent applications in Oman. The EGPO will also send examiners to the OPTO for training purposes. Additionally, all pending patent applications in Oman will be examined by the EGPO.

Needless to say, the EGPO is an accepted examiner at WIPO and PCT offices.

For more information or assistance you may contact our Egypt office at egypt@qumsieh.com.

Official fees for each additional class above five (5) will have increased.

Furthermore, substantive examination fees were added for patent s applications filed simultaneously for each additional invention after the first, while government tax remains the same regardless of the number of inventions.

Please email info@qumsieh.com for more information.

On 1 May 2012 the Registrar has levied additional cost of Iraqi Dinar 20,000 (USD$18) as examination fees on each sub-class.

On 15 September 2012 the ITMO announced that the above imposed examination fees are not applied any more. It is important to note that any application filed during the validity of the new extra fees will remain subject for the said fees when mature to examination.

However, we have revised our schedule of charges to reflect the reductions in the official fees.

For more clarifications, please contact iraq@qumsieh.com.

Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact our office patents@qumsieh.com at any time.