Following the issuance of the Myanmar Trademark Law No. 3/2019
on 30 January 2019, there will be a six-month "Soft
Opening" period estimated to be inaugurated by the end of
December 2019. During the Soft Opening period, trademark
owners who already recorded the Declaration of Ownership of
Trademark at the Sub-Registrar of Deeds and Assurance of Myanmar
under the old system can start re-filing formal trademark
applications for their marks. It is expected that there will be a
"Grand Opening" in around June 2020 and from that point
onwards the MIPO will start receiving new applications for new
marks.
As we reported last year, the Myanmar Trademark Law has
introduced a formal trademark registration system and a
first-to-file framework. According to these new measures, all
trademarks which have previously been recorded at the Sub-Registrar
of Deeds and Assurance of Myanmar would have to be re-filed in
order to be protected under the new trademark regime.
