Bahrain trademark search
How to search and register a trademark in Bahrain, from official sources. Signa does not sync the MOIC register yet. It holds WIPO Madrid designations that cover Bahrain.
Search the MOIC register
WIPO Publish (Ministry of Industry and Commerce) is Trademarks Office, Foreign Trade and Industrial Property Directorate, Ministry of Industry and Commerce's own search tool.
- Search by
- keyword (full text)
- Languages
- English, Arabic, French, Japanese
- Free
- Yes
- Account required
- No
- Limits
- The landing page states that international (Madrid) applications are not included; on 2026-11-12 the Bahrain instance showed a basic keyword search, and the advanced fields are described only in WIPO's generic user guide.
How to search
- Open WIPO Publish from the ministry's Trademark, Patent, Industrial Designs & IP Control e-Services page and choose Trademarks; pick English, Arabic, French or Japanese.
- Type one or more keywords in the search box and run the search; results can be sorted by mark, publication date or publication number.
- Each result shows status, the mark in Arabic and English, filing, publication and registration numbers and dates, Nice and Vienna classes and the applicant.
- The WIPO Publish user guide linked as Help describes advanced search on fields such as filing number, mark name, Nice and Vienna classes, applicant, representative and status, with wildcard and phonetic options.
Register a trademark in Bahrain
What MOIC requires, as the official sources below state it.
- How to file
- National application through the ministry's Industrial Property e-Services portal; Madrid designation
- Filing languages
- Arabic, English
- Local representative required for applicants abroad
- Yes
- Several classes in one application
- No
- Classification
- Nice Classification
- Application fee
- BHD 100 to apply, BHD 50 for publication and BHD 500 for registration and certificate, for one mark in one class
- Renewal fee
- BHD 650 in the last year of protection, or BHD 750 within six months after expiry, including publication
- Fees as of
- 2023 (BHD)
- Opposition
- 60 days from publication (pre-registration)
- Term
- 10 years from the filing date, renewable for 10 years at a time
- Non-use
- Open to cancellation after 5 years without use
Good to know
- Bahrain applies the Trademark Law of the Gulf Cooperation Council, approved by Law No. 6 of 2014.
- Foreign applicants not resident in Bahrain must apply through IP registration agents or law firms authorised by the Industrial Property Directorate; the directorate publishes the list of agents.
- An application may cover only one Nice class, and the goods or services must be entered in both Arabic and English.
Madrid Protocol and regional systems
Bahrain is a member of the Madrid Protocol since 2005-12-15, so an international registration filed through WIPO can designate it.
What Signa holds for Bahrain
MOIC Bahrain records are not covered by Signa yet. International registrations designating Bahrain are searchable through WIPO Madrid data.
Get this data via the API
Query the WIPO records that cover Bahrain in the same format as every other office.
GET/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=BHSearch the trademarks Signa holds that cover Bahrain
curl "https://api.signa.so/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=BH" \
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Where these facts come from
Checked 2026-11-12.
- moic.gov.bh
- moic.gov.bh/en/node/2795
- service.moic.gov.bh/wipopublish
- service.moic.gov.bh/wopublish-resources/documents/help.pdf
- moic.gov.bh/sites/default/files/2025-03/BahrainClassificationFinal_EN.pdf
- moic.gov.bh/sites/default/files/2023-12/Trademarks Services Fees.pdf
- moic.gov.bh/sites/default/files/2025-03/BahrainOppositionFinal_EN.pdf
- wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/14730
- wipo.int/documents/d/treaties/docs-en-madrid_marks.pdf