Uruguay Trademark Search and Registration (DNPI)

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Search the DNPI register

Base pública de marcas y patentes (PAMP) is National Directorate of Industrial Property, Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining's own search tool.

Tool: Base pública de marcas y patentes (PAMP)
Search by: phonetic (mark text), Nice class
Free: Yes
Limits: The database did not load from here when checked (connection timed out), so these steps come only from the DNPI's official help; since 2024-01-24 phonetic prior-mark searches are done only in this public database, and the result does not bind the office.

Open the public trademark and patent database (PAMP) from the DNPI's Búsqueda de antecedentes fonéticos page.
Select the Búsqueda fonética tab.
Enter the text of the mark and select the Nice class or classes.
Have the report sent to an email address you enter, or download it directly.

Register

What DNPI requires, as the official sources below state it.

How to file: National application at the DNPI through the online filing system (Sistema de Presentación en Línea)
Local representative required for applicants abroad: No
Several classes in one application: Yes
Classification: Nice Classification
Application fee: Word mark: UI 1,121.03558 (UYU 7,494.12) for one class plus UI 672.62135 (UYU 4,496.47) per additional class; figurative or mixed mark: UI 1,569.44982 (UYU 10,491.77) for one class plus UI 896.828466 (UYU 5,995.30) per additional class; peso amounts at the UI value of 2026-11-01
Renewal fee: Same as the application fees for word and figurative or mixed marks; in the six-month grace period UI 3,363.10675 (UYU 22,482.37) for one class plus UI 1,121.03558 (UYU 7,494.12) per additional class
Fees as of: 2026-11-01 (UYU)
Opposition: 30 calendar days from the day after publication in the Boletín de la Propiedad Industrial (pre-registration)
Non-use: Open to cancellation after 5 years without use

Registration protects a mark for ten years, renewable indefinitely for equal periods; renewal is requested in the six months before expiry, with a six-month grace period after it (Law 17.011, Article 18).
Applicants, national or foreign, must give an address constituted in Uruguay; a representative who is not a registered industrial property agent needs a power of attorney with notarised signatures, apostilled or legalised and translated when it comes from abroad.
Fees are set in indexed units (UI) and converted to pesos at the UI value on the first day of each month; holders with a Pyme (SME) certificate get an 80% discount on registration fees.

International

Uruguay is not a member of the Madrid Protocol, so an international registration through WIPO cannot designate it.

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Sources

Checked 2026-11-12.