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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN WEST BANK

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Opposition Term

03 Months

Registration Term

07 Years

First Renewal Term

14 Years

Subsequent Renewal Term

14 Years

  • The Jordanian Trademark Law No. 33 of 1952 is the primary law governing the mechanism of trademark registration and protection in West Bank.

  • For getting a trademark registered in West Bank, an application has to be filed with the Trademark Office in West Bank, which administers the entire trademark registration process.

  • It follows a 'first-to-file’ system.

  • West Bank follows the 10th edition of Nice Classification. Multi-class trademark applications are not acceptable.

  • There is an opposition period of three (03) months open for filing opposition actions by any interested party.

  • A trademark registration is valid for seven (07) years from the date of filing the application, which is further renewable for successive periods of fourteen (14) years each.

  • The trademark law provides for a period of one (01) month for the late renewal of a trademark, subject to the payment of a lateness fine. A trademark registration can be renewed at any time after the expiry of the relevant registration as long as the Registrar has not ordered that such a trademark registration should be removed from the register of trademarks.

  • Use of trademarks is not compulsory for filing applications or for maintaining trademark registrations in force. However, a trademark registration is vulnerable to cancellation by any interested party who can establish that the trademark was not actually used during the two (02) years immediately preceding the application for cancellation, or that there was no bona fide of using the trademark on the goods concerning which the trademark was registered.

  • West Bank is a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

  • Patents of Invention Law, Law No. 32 for the Year 19991 (and its amendment by Temporary Law No. 71 for the Year 2001) – deal with the mechanism of patent protection in West Bank.

  • For seeking patent protection in West Bank, an application has to be filed with the Patent Office, which administers the entire process of patent grant.

  • In West Bank, an invention that satisfies the conditions of originality, novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability, subjects to patentability. Process patent and product patent are the two types of patents that can be protected.

  • The types of patent applications that can be filed include only the Non-Convention Application.

  • In West Bank, an opposition against a patent application can be raised at the pre-grant stage within two (02) months approximately.

  • A patent is valid for sixteen (16) years from the date of filing the application. Such validity is subject to payment of the prescribed renewal fees, which needs to be paid before the expiration of the fourth, eighth, and twelfth years from the filing date.

  • Patent & Industrial Designs Law No. 22 for the year 1953 - governs and deals with the mechanism of registration of industrial designs in West Bank.

  • For seeking industrial design protection in West Bank, an application has to be filed with the Patent Office, which administers the entire process of design grant.

  • The types of industrial design applications that can be filed in West Bank include only the Non-Convention Application.

  • Utility model protection isn't provided under industrial design protection in the nation.

  • Opposition against an industrial design application can't be raised in West Bank.

  • A design registration is valid for five (05) years from the filing date, which is further renewable for two (02) similar periods of five (05) years each – making the total term of registration fifteen (15) years.

  • No statutory laws on copyright and related rights are available in the West Bank.