The UIBM API for trademark search

The Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi (UIBM) is the Italian national authority responsible for examining and registering trademarks, patents, designs, and utility models in Italy. It sits under the Direzione Generale per la Tutela della Proprietà Industriale within the Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (MIMIT) and is headquartered in Rome, with day-to-day filing intake distributed across Italy's network of Chambers of Commerce (Camere di Commercio). The Italian register has been continuously maintained since the late nineteenth century, holds an estimated two million records once you fold in expired and renewed marks, and receives roughly 70,000 new national trademark applications per year — placing UIBM among the largest national trademark offices in the European Union by filing volume.

Italy was one of the nine founding signatories of the Madrid Agreement in 1891 and remains a Madrid Protocol member today, so applicants targeting Italy have three routes: a direct UIBM national filing, an EU trademark at EUIPO (one filing covers Italy plus 26 other EU member states), or a WIPO international registration designating Italy. UIBM examination follows the Codice della Proprietà Industriale (Legislative Decree 30/2005, the Italian Industrial Property Code, as reformed by D.Lgs. 131/2010 and subsequent updates). Italy introduced a formal trademark opposition procedure in July 2011 — historically late for a major European office — and added administrative revocation and invalidity proceedings before UIBM itself in December 2022, replacing a system that previously routed those disputes only through the ordinary courts. Italian trademark practice is heavily weighted toward fashion, luxury, design, automotive, and food sectors: the "Made in Italy" brand premium drives both volume and disputes, and UIBM additionally administers the dedicated Marchi Storici di Interesse Nazionale (Historical Trademarks of National Interest) register introduced in 2020 for marks used continuously for at least fifty years.

UIBM does not publish a public REST API or bulk feed equivalent to USPTO ODP, EUIPO eSearch, or INPI's Data INPI initiative. The official search surface is the UIBM Banca Dati Marchi at uibm.gov.it/bancadati plus EUIPO's TMview (which mirrors the Italian register through the EUIPO trademark data network), and downstream consumers access bulk Italian data primarily through TMview's office-to-office channels rather than a customer-facing API. Records carry Italian-language status labels (Concesso for granted, Respinto for rejected, Decaduto for lapsed, Rinunciato for withdrawn, In Esame for pending examination, and so on) and use a 15-digit application number format that starts with "30" followed by the four-digit filing year (e.g., 302023000123456), with a legacy 7-digit registration-number cohort surviving from the pre-e-filing era when numbers simply exceeded one million. The UIBM register is not on Signa yet. It is on the roadmap. Italian marks reach Signa today through WIPO Madrid designations, and EU trademarks from EUIPO, which cover Italy, are searchable today. Join the waitlist to hear when the UIBM register is added.