United Arab Emirates trademark search
How to search and register a trademark in United Arab Emirates, from official sources. Signa does not sync the MoET register yet. It holds WIPO Madrid designations that cover United Arab Emirates.
Search the MoET register
Trademark Inquiry is Ministry of Economy and Tourism (Intellectual Property Sector)'s own search tool.
- Free
- No
- Account required
- Yes
- Limits
- A paid service behind a login, so the search form and results were not seen; this describes the Ministry's service page only.
How to search
- Log in to the Ministry's website (the service is also offered in the Ministry's smart app).
- Choose Trademark Inquiry from the list of e-services.
- Fill in the application data for the proposed mark.
- Pay AED 350 electronically; the result of the search of submitted and registered marks is returned immediately.
Register a trademark in United Arab Emirates
What MoET requires, as the official sources below state it.
- How to file
- National application at the Ministry of Economy and Tourism (online); Madrid designation
- Local representative required for applicants abroad
- Yes
- Several classes in one application
- Yes
- Classification
- Nice Classification
- Application fee
- AED 750 to apply, AED 750 publication fee after acceptance and AED 5,000 final registration fee (AED 6,500 in total)
- Renewal fee
- AED 750 publication fee plus AED 5,750 final renewal fee during the tenth year of protection, or AED 6,500 within six months after expiry
- Fees as of
- 2026-11-12 (AED)
- Opposition
- 30 days from publication in the Trademarks Bulletin (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
- A trademark owner from outside the UAE must file through a trademark agent registered in the trademark register, with a legal, notarised power of attorney.
- The power of attorney must be authenticated and translated into Arabic, and a mark containing foreign-language words needs a certified Arabic translation showing how it is pronounced (Cabinet Decision No. 57 of 2022).
- Fees are charged per class, even when several classes are filed in one application; members of the National Programme for Small and Medium Enterprises get a 50% reduction and People of Determination a full exemption.
Madrid Protocol and regional systems
United Arab Emirates is a member of the Madrid Protocol since 2021-12-28, so an international registration filed through WIPO can designate it.
What Signa holds for United Arab Emirates
UAE Ministry of Economy records are not covered by Signa yet. International registrations designating the United Arab Emirates are searchable through WIPO Madrid data.
Get this data via the API
Query the WIPO records that cover United Arab Emirates in the same format as every other office.
GET/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=AESearch the trademarks Signa holds that cover United Arab Emirates
curl "https://api.signa.so/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=AE" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SIGNA_API_KEY"Hear when Signa adds the MoET register
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Where these facts come from
Checked 2026-11-12.
- moet.gov.ae
- moet.gov.ae/en/w/trademark-registration-1
- moet.gov.ae/en/w/trademark-inquiry
- moet.gov.ae/documents/20121/0/CabinetDecision_57_2022_pdf.pdf/d7d18751-7071-dfd3-711d-b8b3d58174f2
- moet.gov.ae/documents/20121/376326/Trademarks.pdf/691876a6-2dbb-90b1-f8b1-c52d4dfce538
- moet.gov.ae/en/-/ministry-of-economy-and-tourism-introduces-trademark-service-fees-as-part-of-efforts-to-enhance-uae-s-appeal-for-national-and-international-brands-and-support-sme-owners
- wipo.int/documents/d/treaties/docs-en-madrid_marks.pdf