Tanzania trademark search
How to search and register a trademark in Tanzania, from official sources. Signa has no records covering Tanzania yet.
Search the BRELA register
How BRELA records can be consulted, as the office states it.
BRELA has no free public trademark search. The free search in its Online Registration System (ORS) covers business names and companies only; extracts of information about a mark and a mark index review by Nice class are e-services for registered ORS users, and the Industrial Property Journals can be searched by date.
Office website: https://www.brela.go.tz
Register a trademark in Tanzania
What BRELA requires, as the official sources below state it.
- How to file
- National application at BRELA under the Trade and Service Marks Act (Mainland Tanzania); Separate application at the Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency (BPRA) for Zanzibar
- Classification
- Nice Classification
- Application fee
- No fee for the application to the Registrar; TSHS 15,000 to advertise the application in the Gazette and TSHS 60,000 to register a mark for goods in one class
- Renewal fee
- TSHS 30,000 for renewal of registration of a mark at the expiration of the last registration
- Fees as of
- 2026-11-12 (TZS)
- Opposition
- 60 days from advertisement of the application in the Trade and Service Marks Journal (pre-registration)
- Term
- 7 years from the filing date, renewable for 10 years at a time
- Non-use
- Open to cancellation after 3 years without use
Good to know
- Tanzania has two separate industrial property offices: the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA) in Dar es Salaam and the Zanzibar Business and Property Registration Agency (BPRA) in Zanzibar.
- Zanzibar has its own law, the Zanzibar Industrial Property Act No. 4 of 2008, which repealed the Zanzibar Trade Marks Decree (Cap. 159); under it, applications to register a mark in Zanzibar are filed with the Zanzibar Registrar of Industrial Property (section 47).
- Under the Trade and Service Marks Act, a mark is registered as of the date the application was received (section 28), the first registration lasts seven years and each renewal ten (section 29), and an applicant whose address is outside Tanzania must give an address for service within Tanzania (section 21).
Madrid Protocol and regional systems
Tanzania is not a member of the Madrid Protocol, so an international registration through WIPO cannot designate it.
What Signa holds for Tanzania
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Where these facts come from
Checked 2026-11-12.
- brela.go.tz
- wipo.int/directory/en/details.jsp
- ors.brela.go.tz/ors/start
- brela.go.tz/uploads/documents/en-1758107699-The Trade and Service Marks Act.pdf
- brela.go.tz/pages/trade-and-service-marks-fees
- brela.go.tz/uploads/documents/en-1602522300-TM.SM REGULATION GN 40.pdf
- bpra.go.tz/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Zanzibar_Industrial_Property_Act_No_4_of_2008.pdf
- wipo.int/documents/d/treaties/docs-en-madrid_marks.pdf