African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) Register | Introduction
African Intellectual Property Organization, the protection of intellectual property rights for Africa in a regional alliance, is a former French colony, The official language is French-speaking countries. With the rest of the world to protect intellectual property organization, it has a separate legal system to protect members of the trademark, while its members in the field of trademark entirely by the organization, which makes no separate trademark system. OAPI in Yaounde, Cameroon establishment of a unified Intellectual Property Office, unified management of the various members of the Property Services.
African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) Register | registration procedures
OAPI organizations registered trademarks using the International Classification, each application for a standard three categories, applications submitted at the same time that the admissibility of issuing official notice.After the passage of official review, the issuance of a certificate of registration. If the government does not review, the review officer will be dismissed before the notice, and the applicant must listen to the reply before deciding.
After the registration of the trademark in the Official Gazette on notice, the notice period of six months, if no objection, trademark registration certificate from the designated period took effect. If the objection, OAPI organizations will listen to both sides to make a decision after a reply.
Tip :
① objection to the applicant in the period to respond to the mark for review officer heard.
② objection to the applicants against the decision, but also to the courts.
③ by the organization's member countries, the official language is French, so please be careful to choose a registered agent.
④ trademark registration for a period of 10 years, from the application down.Although OAPI organizations for a first - principles, but usually the applicant would be required in any one member to use the mark can only be effectively protected. If we want to mark the renewal, it must be submitted to the use of any one member of the documents.
African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) Register | list of members (16 members)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, C?te d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Equatorial Guinea.
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