IRAK
August 01, 2017
The Trademark Office in Iraq has reworked their formalities for TM registrations in class 5(A), where they now require only a soft copy of the home registration certificate to be submitted in support of trademark applications upon filing, whereas the original copy legalized up to the Iraqi Consulate can be submitted within six month-time from the date of filing, without incurring additional fees.
Under the previous requirements, applicants were required to provide the following information when filing a trademark application in class 5: Scientific name of the product, trade name of the producer, pharmaceutical formula of the product, name of manufacturing company if not the applicant, and name of local distributor, if any. All of the above have been dropped and now are substitutable by way of submitting a home registration certificate legalized up to the Iraqi Consulate.