Registered As a Trademark
A trademark is something that recognizes the products or services of a particular brand. And therefore, a relevant business strong point that requires to be registered to prevent others from trying to use it or to sell their own products and services. The trademark can just be a company name or product and services but does not need to be and can be:
- Words – (Name, Company name, or Product name)
- Letters
- Numerals
- Designs – (Shapes, Symbols, Patterns, Logos, and Signs)
- Colors
- Sounds – (Jingles)
- Shapes of goods or packaging or figures
- Sequence of images
- Abbreviations
- Signatures
- Device
- Tag line or Phrase or Title
- combination of words and logo
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What can be approved as a registered trademark
As full detailed above there are several methods that a trademark can take. There are, though, also rules that interpret a trademark:
- Cannot be offensive
- Cannot only describe the type of goods or services it relates to
- Cannot be common and non-peculiar
- Cannot be a protected designation of the country of origin
- Cannot be a protected traditional term for wine or specialties guaranteed
- Cannot be a protected plant variety
- Cannot be the same or comparable to an existing registered trademark for the same classifications
- Cannot look too similar to symbols
More info about trademark law in UAE. Contact us for more details about your trademark.
