Register Patents
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.
Register Patents
Service Fees
New application
AED 1,000 for individuals
AED 2,000 for companies
- Request search and first examination:
AED 7,000 for individuals
AED 7,000 for companies
- Request 2nd/3rd examination:
AED 5,000 for individuals
AED 5,000 for companies
- 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.
- Basic requirements for acquiring patent rights:
- 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.
Required Documents
Natural persons residing in the UAE
MANDATORY
- Personal information
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
OPTIONAL
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- representative Image (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)
Legal persons residing in the UAE
MANDATORY
- Personal information
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Transcript of commercial register or partnership
- Deed of Assignment
OPTIONAL
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- representative Image
- 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)
Natural persons not residing in the UAE
MANDATORY
- Claims (Arabic, English)
- Detailed description (Arabic, English)
- Drawings, if any (Arabic, English)
- Power of Attorney
OPTIONAL
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- representative Image (if any)
- Certified copy of priority application
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) documents (if any)
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Other documents (if any)
Legal persons not residing in the UAE
MANDATORY
- 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
OPTIONAL
- Abstract (Arabic, English)
- representative Image (if any)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) document
- Sequence Listing (biotech inventions)
- Certified copy of priority Document
- Other documents (if any
Steps and Procedures
- Fill-in the application form through the eSystem
- Payment of service fees
- Verification and legal examination of the application
- Notifying the applicant of the outcome of the formal and legal examination of the application
- Invitation to the substantive examination
- Request substantive examination and payment of fees
- Examination by the technical examiner
- Examination report issued by the examiner
- Payment of publication fees
- Patent registration
- Publication released
- Certificate issuance
Service Type
Procedural
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
- MoE website
- MoE smart app
Target Audience
Individuals and companies
Service Provision Timings
24 / 7
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Contact Details
Call Center
Phone
8001222
Email
info@economy.ae
