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What are the registration requirments relating the field of ip in egypt regarding trademarks, patents and industrial designs?.

First we would like to present ourselves as trademarks patent and industrial designs agents in all over the world and hope it will be start of mutual cooperation in order to enable us to render our remarkable services to your esteemed office.
This is to serve you in the following fields.
1) Trademarks registration and protection and / or other affairs related to Trademarks.
2) All patents affairs and the annual registration fees.
3) The industrial designs.
We are in a position to assure you that all our services to you will be accomplished in a very short period of time shorter than you can expect. Meanwhile we take this opportunity to inform you that our office management is of very wide experience in all trademarks, & industrial designs affairs.
Please be informed that the registration requirements are as follows:

Patents

The Egyptian patent office maintain the patent registration in Egypt as per the law 82 / 2002 regarding the intellectual property rights, protection period are 20 years from the filing date

Requirements

1. Power of Attorney duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul. (See Form and downloads)
2. Certificate of Incorporation or Extract from the Commercial Register of the applicant Company, duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul. 
3. 2 copies of the English and Arabic complete specification, claims and abstract. 
4. Two sets of the formal drawings, with all references inserted in Arabic. 
5. Assignments of priority rights duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul. (See Form and downloads) 
6. Priority document, in case of convention applications.

Documents should be filed with the application form or within the following terms:

• Items Nos. 1, 2 & 5 within 4 months from filing date.
• Item No 6 within 3 months from filing date.

Trade Marks

The Egyptian trademarks office maintain the trademark registration in Egypt as per the law 82 / 2002 regarding the intellectual property rights, protection period are 10 years from the filing date and renewed for similar periods upon renewal of the said registration within the last year of the original period or within three months from the expiration date on payment of an additional fees. Classification is identical with the International Classification (Nice), trade marks are registered in respect of goods as well as services. One application may have many classes

Requirement

1. Power of Attorney, legalized up to the Egyptian Consul. (See Forms and downloads).
2. Certificate of Incorporation or Extract from the Commercial Register of the applicant Company, duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul.
3. Full particulars of the applicant and list of goods.
4. 12 prints of the mark and printing block.

Note: All documents should be filed with the application form or within six months thereafter.

Design & Industrial Models

The Egyptian Design & Industrial Models office maintain the Design & Industrial Models registration in Egypt as per the law 82 / 2002 regarding the intellectual property rights, protection period are 10 years from the filing date and renewed for five more.
An application may include a number of designs and Models, on condition that this does not exceed fifty, provided they form altogether a homogeneous unit.

Requirements:

1. Power of Attorney duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul.
2. Certificate of Incorporation or Extract from the Commercial Register of the Applicant, duly legalized up to the Egyptian Consul.
3. 3 sets of formal drawings or photos showing the Design.
4. Priority document, if applies.

Documents should be filed with the application form or within six months thereafter.

Copyright

The Copyright law in Egypt to cover explicitly the protection of computer programs, Literal Works & Artistic Work
Requirements:

1. Literal Works: 10 copies of the work.
2. Artistic Work: five copies of the recorded work.
3. Computer Software: Two copies of the Software.

Renewal & Maintenance

Renewal is mainly divided into two categories namely, renewal of Trademarks and annuities of Patents, both are dealt with through our computer system. In both cases, we are sending renewal reminders before the due date as a gratis service to remind our clients and associates of the important due dates.

Renewal of Trade Marks:
Renewal of trade marks in Egypt should be affected every 10 years.
Renewal reminder sent before the due date.
Requirements
To effect renewal of trade mark registration, only Power of Attorney is needed. Patent
Annuities:
Annuities are paid annually in Egypt every year from the filing date. Annuities should be paid in due basic date or within the next year thereafter.
Failure to pay the due annuity will result in abandonment of the patent / patent application.
There are no requirements to proceed with payment of annuities.

Domain Names

Requirements
For registration of domain names

1. Only entities operating in Egypt can register their domain name in Egypt (existence in Egypt).
2. Registration of domain names in different subdomain will be made according to the activity of the organization.
3. Applicant must be private Sector organization having an existence in Egypt.
4. Application form showing the following details:

• Name of the applicant.
• Address of the applicant.
• Telephone and Fax number of the applicant. 
• Contact person.
• Technical contact person.

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