Recording an assignment or other transactions, such as mergers,
before the UAE Trade Mark Office (‘TMO') shall involve
specific legal requirements and formalities, including submitting a
legalised Deed of Assignment (‘DOA') signed by both the
assignor and assignee and/or a merger certificate. However, many
trade mark owners faced some complications in presenting such
documents which could arise from companies restructuring,
insolvency and/or voluntarily winding up of legal entities.
Therefore, an assignor may no longer exist or have any presence in
business due to insolvency, bankruptcy and/or for any other
regulatory reasons.
In this article, we try to review the details of the transfer of
trade mark ownership requirements and some possible solutions that
could be explored. Whilst this circular is not intended to give
advice or opinion, it is prepared to raise awareness and attention
to the AIPPI UAE members on some important formalities and invite
them to
