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Applicable Law:

Trademarks are to be registered in accordance with the applicable Jordanian Law No. 33 of 1952.

Definition of the Trademark:

It is a mark used or intended to be used on any relevant commodities to denote that these commodities belong to the owner of the trademark due to their manufacturing or production with the aim of trading.

Procedures for Registration of Trademarks:

  1. Submit an application for registration of trademarks on the prescribed form attached with the following:
    • A copy of the company's certificate of registration if the applicant is a legal personality (body corporate) or a copy of the identity card or the passport if the applicant is an individual.
    • A copy of the proxy if the application is submitted by a registration agent or an attorney provided that the proxy terms are taken into consideration in terms of authentication and translation in case the proxy is in a language other than Arabic.
    • Pay the specified fees at a bank and attach the bank's coupon to the application.
    • The trademark registrar is entitled to ask for any document he deems necessary for registration.
  2. The application form shall be studied in terms of shape and content and then verified to find out if the trademark is identical with another trademark on the trademarks register.
  3. The application may be approved or rejected and in both cases the trademarks registrar notifies in writing the applicant.
  4. In case the application is approved, the trademark shall be published in the trademarks publication and the applicant shall pay the prescribed publication fees.
  5. Any person may object the registration of the trademark within three months as of the date of publication provided that that person pays the prescribed fees.
  6. In case of no objection, the trademarks registrar shall issue the registration certificate for the applicant after he pays the prescribed fees.

Period of Protection:

The duration of protection is seven years renewable and it may be fourteen years after paying the prescribed fees.
The owner of the trademark may carry out any modifications in accordance with the provisions of the law including modification of the trademark, address, name or goods, etc provided that he pays the prescribed fees for modification.

A List of the Trademarks Fees

No.

Type of Registration

Value of the fee in Jordanian dinar or its equivalent in foreign currency
For submitting an application for the registration of a trademark for one item or more of the same category 53
For submitting an application in accordance with Article (10) of the Law for the registration of a harmonized trademark for goods included in one category 53
Several applications together at one time in accordance with Article(10) of the Law for the registration of a harmonized trademark including one item of every category provided that the total fees due for the registration of any number of categories do not exceed, in any case, ? 53
For the registration of any number of categories 160
For every deliberation held by the registrar at the request of the applicant or the registered owner 160
For objection notification of every application objected against and the objector pays the fee 42
For depositing a plea on response of the objection notification by the applicant for every objector 16
For considering every objection submitted by the applicant or the objector or considering the submitted application in accordance with Articles 22 and 25 of the Law by the applicant or the owner. 32
For the registration of one item or more of the same category 40
For submitting an application for the registration of a trademark ownership by transfer for any registration if:
One. registration took place within six months of ownership date
Two. registration took place after six months of ownership date 		40

80
For applying with the aim of changing the name of the owner of a trademark without changing the ownership for every registration 40
For applying for the renewal of an expired trademark 63
An additional fee in accordance with paragraph (b) of Article 52 of the Regulations 16
For changing one record of the registered addresses of the trademark owner for every change 8
For every record in the register, any rectification or change in case no fee is imposed on it 8
For the cancellation of a record or a part of a record of a trade mark from the register at the request of the trademark owner 8
Application for the rectification of the register or removing a trademark 40
For any application for rectification of writing errors, modification of the application or for recording cession or memorandum, on which no fees are imposed anywhere else. 8
For inspection in accordance with paragraph (78) of the Regulations 53
For every application submitted to the registrar in accordance with paragraph (2) of Article 19 of the Law. 40
For every certificate issued by the registrar but not issued in accordance with paragraph (2) of Article 15 of the Law. 40
For every application submitted to the register for adding to the trademark or making a change on it (for every record) 40
For looking into the register 16
For taking a copy of a document or any similar of the record for every hundred words 8
For the authentication of a copy of a document taken of the register 8

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