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Official Trademark Office in OAPI

Address: 158, place de la préfecture B.P. 887 Yaoundé
Phone number: (237) 222 20 57 00

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 above-listed countries are treated as one jurisdiction in trademark law. Besides, there is no separate trademark law in the member states. Consequently, it is not possible to obtain national registrations in these countries.
OAPI becomes a member of the Madrid Protocol on 5 March 2015.

The Trademark Office applies the current version of the Nice Classification, you can find acceptable goods and services in this link.


Requirements

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?

  • Type of the applicant: individual or a company.
  • Complete name of the owner. Full address of the owner.
  • Phone number - to contact you in case if any action is required.
  • Mailing address - to forward you the certificate once the trademark is registered.
  • List of goods/services.
  • Class or classes.
  • Trademark itself.
  • Power of attorney (non-legalised).

Registration Procedure

The application process includes only a formal examination, without indication of potential identical or similar trademarks. The opposition period is 6 months from the publication date of the trademark in the Official Gazette.
After registration, the trademark is published in the official Trademark Bulletin.
The entire trademark registration process takes 9-12 months.

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.

 

Extensive Search & Study

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.

 

Trademark Application Fees

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.

 

Trademark Registration Fees

Our fees (6th of December, 2017):

  • Trademark Search in one class: 159 USD
  • Additional class: 159 USD

 

  • Trademark Registration Request in one class: 1249 USD
  • Additional class: 299 USD

Our fees include the official and legal fees.

Services

We offer the following services in OAPI:

  • Trademark Search (wordmark only)
  • Trademark Registration
  • Trademark renewal
  • Trademark oppositions
  • Defenses in case of oppositions or objections/office actions in OAPI
  • Trademark assignment
  • Change of name/Change of Address

 

If you are interested in any of the above-mentioned services, please do not hesitate to contact us.