OAPI Trademark Search & Registration
Get a free search
Get a free Basic Availability Report & Our Offer to your email in 24 hours.
Over 100.000 searches completed
Free search - no obligation
Ready in a business day
Is your trademark available? We will provide you with our sophisticated Trademark Study, which will allow you to ensure a successful trademark registration.
Our Watch System can simultaneously track trademark registrations in more than 100 countries and offers second to none tracking quality.
Our attorneys will prepare and file a renewal application for your trademark, to ensure that your mark is protected for the next 10 years.
The OAPI states are a union of French-speaking African countries. Occasionally, OAPI is mentioned as AIPO (African Intellectual Property Organization), not to be confused with ARIPO.
Member states are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.
The Trademark Office applies the current version of the Nice Classification, you can find acceptable goods and services in this link.
Fill out our simple online form in just 5 minutes and a Trademark Specialist will contact you within 24 hours in order to guide you through the process. Note, that if your trademark is applied both for goods (classes from 1 to 34) and services (classes from 35 to 45) it will have to be filed in 2 separate applications. At th e same time, one application in OAPI may contain more than one class of products or services respectively.
What is registrable as a trademark?
Registrable as a trademark is any visible sign capable of distinguishing the goods and services of any enterprise. The following trademark types are registrable: trademarks, service marks and collective marks.
What will be required to file your brand in OAPI?
A trademark registration is valid for 10 years starting from the filing date. The registration is renewable for periods of 10 years. If the trademark has not been in use within 5 years from registration, it may be subject to cancellation at the appeal of any interested party. Use in one member state is sufficient to satisfy the use requirement for all member countries.
Available online, you can request a free trademark search online on our website or here:
Trademark Database contains registered and filed trademarks in OAPI. However, we recommend ordering a trademark study as such will allow you to check the probability of registration of your trademark in OAPI, calculated by an experienced attorney.
The official fee is approx. EUR 610.00 for up to three classes, EUR 125.00 for each additional class. For a coloured trademark an official fee of approx. EUR 75.00 is added.
Our fees (6th of December, 2017):
Our fees include the official and legal fees.
We offer the following services in OAPI:
If you are interested in any of the above-mentioned services, please do not hesitate to contact us.