Previously, a trademark application could consist of a maximum number of 10 items in the list of goods and services. The new decree allows more items for an additional charge of 5% of the official publication fee for each additional item.

This decree went into effect in January 2025.

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

For more information please contact yemen@qumsieh.com.

The Trademark Office issued this notification to restate the above Decision in Gaza.

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

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China has announced on 14 December 2012 that new items were added to the 10th Edition of International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks under Class 35 – group 09.

Those new items are:
Pharmaceutical retail or wholesale services; pharmaceutical preparations retail or wholesale services; sanitary preparations retail or wholesale services; medical supplies retail or wholesale services; veterinary drugs retail or wholesale services; veterinary preparations retail or wholesale services.

This new regulation entered into force on 1 January 2013.

For more information, please contact our China office at china@qumsieh.com.

It is worth mentioning that all valid registrations should be re-classified according to the new classification (if required) upon renewal of the trademark.

For more information please contact oman@qumsieh.com.

The recent regulations will apply on new applications for registration and protection purposes.

Accordingly, any pending application for examination will be needed to be amended, however accepted and published marks will not be affected by this new requirement.

Therefore, we kindly request our valued clients who are in the process of sending us new instructions, to indicate the exact list of goods / services of their trademarks.

For more information please contact jordan@qumsieh.com.

This development comes after TMO in India amended the Trademark Rules for the year 2002.

Oman joined other Arab countries which are applying 9th edition of Nice Classification like Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Syria.

The main updates entered into 9th Edition of Nice classification can be summarized as follows:

1. “Legal services” in class 42 transferred to class 45.
2. The word “frozen” added to class heading 29.
3. The item “not of precious or coated therewith in class heading 21” has been removed.

For further clarification please approach us at oman@qumsieh.com.

For applications which are still pending or under examination it is decided not to be pursed and considered as rejected.

Under these circumstance customers are advised to register their trademarks in class 32 for beers (alcoholic and non alcoholic), in class 16, as well as in class 43.

The new changes include extending the protection to cover copyright and related rights matters, trademarks and service marks.

The term of “counterfeit goods” that was previously used to combat both parallel imports and fakes is no longer in the Code.

Alternatively the following terms are appearing in the new amendments instead of counterfeit goods: “goods moved infringing intellectual property rights; goods moved across the customs border of the Republic of Kazakhstan and bearing dubious trademarks similar to the original goods whose trademarks are protected by the laws of Kazakhstan; goods moved across the customs border of the Republic of Kazakhstan that are copies made without the consent of their owners” constitute a breach of the copyright and related rights protected under the laws of Kazakhstan.

The customs measures will be enforced against faked products, that is, goods unlawfully bearing trademarks and against copies of copyrighted matters and matters protected by related rights, produced without the consent of their owners.

What is good about these amendments is that they give the customs officials the authority to suspend and stop clearance procedures for goods believed to constitute an infringement upon prior registered trademarks or copyrighted materials without waiting for the holder’s approval to file a request to do so.

For additional information please contact us at our email info@qumsieh.com.