Family Brands – NJQ & Associates https://njq-ip.com Treat Your IP Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:00:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 SAUDI ARABIA: REGISTRATION OF FAMILY NAMES AS TRADEMARKS https://njq-ip.com/newsletters/2020/12/saudi-arabia-registration-of-family-names-as-trademarks/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:58:15 +0000 https://njq-ip.com/?post_type=newsletter&p=10865/ RIYADH – The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) has, by Ministerial Decree number 2020/12/2, announced the possibility of registering family names as trademarks.

In addition to the requirements to register a regular trademark, a family-name-trademark must meet the following requirements:

  • The applicant’s family name must be identical to the applied-for trademark;
  • The applicant must provide a commercial registration under the same family name for no less than 10 years;
  • The trademark cannot contain the family name alone, the family name should be distinguishable by other elements;
  • The logo must be distinctive;
  • The application should cover the list of goods and services where the family name has been known for, and
  • Foreign trademark registration certificates of the family in question, if any.

SAIP also indicated that an owner of a different activity with the same family name may register the same as a trademark.

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

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