TRADEMARKS REQUIREMENTS TO FILE IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

If the applicant is not domiciled in this jurisdiction, a local address for service must be provided. The applicant is required to file through a local representative. Full local address is required.

Joint applicants are permitted in this jurisdiction.

Neither actual use nor intent to use is required for application.

The following information is required to complete an application:

  • Name and address of the applicant;
  • State or country of incorporation;
  • Description of trademark;
  • Representation of trademark (a depiction of the mark an applicant seeks to register);
  • List of goods / services;
  • Power of attorney;
  • Official filing fee.

While all of the items noted in the list immediately above are required to complete an application, only the following items from that list are required in order to secure a filing date:

  • Name and address of the applicant;
  • Description of trademark;
  • Representation of trademark (a depiction of the mark an applicant seeks to register);
  • List of goods / services.

The list of goods and services in this jurisdiction may specify:

  • “All the goods” or “all the services” of the relevant Class(es);
  • The relevant Class heading;
  • a list of the common commercial names for the specific goods or services of interest;
  • the relevant entire (long) alphabetic class listing.

The following number of copies of the trademark must be submitted:

  • five.

In this jurisdiction, the following type of registration is available:

  • National. The Dominican Republic is currently undergoing the legal process to become a member of the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol.

This jurisdiction is not a party to either the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol and may not be designated in international applications.

This country is not a member of the European Union; a Community Trademark is not effective in this jurisdiction.

No multinational regional registrations are available in this jurisdiction.

Applications can be filed online at the following URL:

The official file can be accessed online at the following URL:

Applications are officially searched as to prior trademarks.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PATENT(S) IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

  1. Names and address of inventor or inventors
  2. Title of invention
  3. Description in French of the discovery drawings samples and plans will be attached to the request.
  4. A true copy of the patent application and the assignment deed (if it’s the case) delivered by the jurisdiction of the applicant(s) Department of Commerce and will be legalized at the nearest Haitian Consulate and forwarded to us in Haiti for legalization.
  5. The length for a patent is 5 years, 10 years and 20 years starting from its registration.
  6. Patent registration certificate will be delivered within 08 or 12 months.

           POA simply signed

REQUIREMENTS FOR DESIGN(S) IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

  1. Power of Attorney (POA) is optional and in case of use which should be only signed by the applicant. Kindly find our POA form here;
  2. The classification and list of goods and services;
  3. Applicant’s detailed information, company or applicant name, address, country of incorporation for companies and
  4. The applicant is required to file through a local attorney

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