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This service allows customers to submit an official request to the MoE Development of Innovation in the Economy and Patents Department (DIEPD) for a patent, as per the federal law and executive regulations.
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Patents and Industrial Design Services - Apply for Patent
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Service Fees
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Invoice Value (AED) Fees (AED) (Updated fees)
- New application: for individuals AED 1,000
- New application: for companies AED 2,000
- Request search and first examination: for individuals AED 7,000
- Request search and first examination: for companies AED 7,000
- Request 2nd/3rd examination: for individuals AED 5,000
- Request 2nd/3rd examination: for companies AED 5,000
- Request 1st publication: No fees required (but the payment process must be completed)
- Request grievance and objection (Appeal): No fees required (but the payment process must be completed)
Conditions and Requirements
- Fees for applications are collected electronically from individuals and companies.
- Mandatory documents (full description, claims and drawings, if any) must be attached with the application – in Arabic or English. If some of the mandatory documents are not submitted on the filing date, the applicant shall be given 90 days to submit the missing documents.
- After the deadline, the application will be waived and the applicant shall pay a penalty to reactivate it.
- Submitted applications will undergo substantive examination by DIEPD to ensure all requirements are met under Federal Law No. (31) for the year 2006 and its executive regulations.
- The applicant may object and file a grievance against the inspector’s rejection decision.
- The invention must be industrially viable
- The invention must be new; it must not be known to the public before the filing date.
- The invention must involve an inventive step.
- The specifications must be drafted clearly with sufficient technical disclosure so that an ordinary person may understand the invention.
Basic requirements for acquiring patent rights:
Required Documents
- Personal information
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- Depiction (if any)
- Power of Attorney (if any)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) documents (if any)
- Copy of Emirates ID
- Certified copy of priority application
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Other documents (if any)
- Personal information
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Transcript of commercial register or partnership
- Deed of Assignment
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- Depiction
- Certified copy of priority application
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Power of Attorney (if any)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) documents (if any)
- Other documents (if any)
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Power of Attorney
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- Depiction (if any)
- Certified copy of priority application
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) documents (if any)
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Other documents (if any)
- Personal Information
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Transcript from commercial register or partnership
- Deed of Assignment
- Power of Attorney
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- Depiction (if any)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) document
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Certified copy of priority Document
- Other documents (if any)
Natural persons residing in the UAE
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Legal persons residing in the UAE
MANDATORY:
OPTIONAL:
Natural persons not residing in the UAE
MANDATORY:
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Legal persons not residing in the UAE
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Steps and Procedures
- 01Fill-in the application form through the eSystem
- 02Payment of service fees
- 03Verification and legal examination of the application and submitted documents by the department's employees
- 04Notifying the applicant of the outcome of the formal and legal examination of the application through the eSystem
- 05Invitation to the substantive examination
- 06Request substantive examination and payment of fees
- 07Examination by the technical examiner
- 08Examination report issued by the examiner
- 09Payment of publication fees
- 10Patent registration
- 11Publication released
- 12Certificate issuance
Service Rating
Average Duration for Service Delivery
7 months from the date of submitting the application until the completion of the legal examination
42 months from the date of paying examination fees until the date of receiving the examination results
3 months from the date of paying publication fees until the issuance of the patent
Service Provision Channels
Ministry of Economy website:
https://services.economy.ae/m/Pages/CategoryServices.aspx?CategoryID=14
Target Audience
Individuals and companies
Service Provision Timings
24 hours
Contact Details
Development of Innovation in the Economy and Patents Department (DIEPD)
Phone
8001222
Email
info@economy.ae
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