Iraq is a member to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (the Act of Stockholm of 1967). Registration of trademarks in Iraq is effected under the provisions of the Trademark Law No. 21 of the year 1957 and its subsequent amendments.
The classes of goods are subdivided. The wording of the goods to be included in the application should be in conformity with the local classification (available in section 3.5.5), which is almost identical to the international classification An application can include goods in any number of subclasses, but with additional charges for each subclass. Service marks are not registrable. The prints of the trademark should show the Arabic transliteration of the mark in a larger lettering on top of the word in Latin. The prints of a trademark covering goods in class 34 should contain the statutory warning in both English and Arabic languages along with the trademark denomination.
