Venezuela trademark search
How to search and register a trademark in Venezuela, from official sources. Signa has no records covering Venezuela yet.
Search the SAPI register
How SAPI records can be consulted, as the office states it.
SAPI's registration guide tells applicants to check whether a mark is free by paying for a prior-mark search (phonetic for word marks, figurative for logos, both for marks that combine words and a logo) and filing the request in Webpi, SAPI's online system.
Office website: https://sapi.gob.ve/
Register a trademark in Venezuela
What SAPI requires, as the official sources below state it.
- How to file
- National application at SAPI
- Filing languages
- Spanish
- Several classes in one application
- No
- Classification
- The classification set out in Article 106 of the Ley de Propiedad Industrial
- Opposition
- 30 business days from publication in the Boletín de la Propiedad Industrial (pre-registration)
- Term
- 15 years from the registration date, renewable for 15 years at a time
- Non-use
- Open to cancellation after 2 years without use
Good to know
- SAPI's registration guide tells applicants to choose the class of goods or services from the Nice Classification.
- SAPI shows the current fee for each procedure in Webpi when the payment is generated. Fees are expressed at the Banco Central de Venezuela reference exchange rate.
- A registration can be renewed in the 6 months before it expires or in a 6-month grace period after it expires, under Official Notice DRPI-AO-N°15-2024.
Madrid Protocol and regional systems
Venezuela is not a member of the Madrid Protocol, so an international registration through WIPO cannot designate it.
What Signa holds for Venezuela
SAPI records are not covered by Signa yet. Signa has no records covering Venezuela yet.
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Where these facts come from
Checked 2026-11-12.
- sapi.gob.ve
- wipo.int/en/web/country-profiles/VE
- sapi.gob.ve/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GUIA-DE-PROCESO-DE-REGISTRO-DE-MARCAS-Y-SIGNOS-DISTINTIVOS.pdf
- sapi.gob.ve/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ley-de-Propiedad-Industrial.G.O.-25227.pdf
- sapi.gob.ve/preguntas-frecuentes
- sapi.gob.ve/marcas
- wipo.int/documents/d/treaties/docs-en-madrid_marks.pdf