The 1992 Trademarks Law No. 37 Article 5 provides that the Ministry of Economy and Commerce shall keep a register to be called "Trademarks Register" which shall be registered all trademarks, names and addresses of their owners, type of their activity, description of their goods or products or services and any assignment or transfer of ownership or change of license to use or any other amendments. The Law stipulates that every person may apply for a true copy of the contents of the said register upon payment of the prescribed fees.
Article 6 of the same law states that the following persons shall have the right to register their trademarks:
- UAE natural and moral persons who exercise any commercial, industrial, handicraft or services activity.
- Non-UAE natural or moral persons who exercise any commercial, industrial, handicraft or services activity in the UAE.
- Non-UAE natural or moral persons who exercise any commercial, industrial, handicraft or services activity in any country which grant the UAE reciprocal treatment.
- Public moral persons.
Articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the 1992 Trademarks law No. 37 as well as the 1993 Ministerial Decision No. 6 lay down detailed conditions and procedures governing registration of trademarks in the UAE.
Article 7 states that each person desiring to use a trademark to distinguish any goods or products or services may apply for registering it.
Article 17 of the 1992 Trademarks law No. 37 considers the person who has a trademark registered in his name its exclusive owner.
Article 20 provides for the owner's right to remove the trademark from the register. It provides also that if the owner of the mark has granted, by contract, to a third person a license to use the mark, the said mark may not be removed from the register except upon written consent of the licensee unless the licensee expressly renounces his right in the license agreement.
Articles 27-28 and 29 lay down the holder’s right of transferring the ownership of a trademark and the conditions under which the transfer, levying a charge or seizure related to a trademark are made.
Articles 30-31-32-33 and 34 organize the license contracting, which is stated by the law as a right of the trademark holder.
Articles 37 defines the penalties with regard to the counterfeiting, imitating, misleading the public, fraudulent use of registered trademark.
