Trademarks

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Iran is a member of Paris Convention and WIPO organization and more than 70 years ago has enacted its first law for Trademarks & Patents.

In general, registration of trademarks is not compulsory in Iran, except for those trademarks used for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food products.

Any individual or any legal entity is allowed to apply for filing a trademark in his name.

According to the relevant Act, a trademark is a sign such as a device, drawing, numeral, letter, phrase, seal, wrapper etc that used to distinguish industrial products, commercial commodities or agricultural products.

All above-mentioned types are registrable as trademarks except those, which are prohibited by law. Additionally since the Islamic Revolution, trademarks in class 33 are not allowed for registration.

Iran, recently, acceded to the eighth version of Nice Classification consisting of 45 classes. It should be mentioned that according to the Islamic Code, registration of trademarks in class 33 are forbidden and the goods of class 32, to the extent not mixed with the alcoholic materials are applicable for registration.

All trademarks, which had been previously registered in the former 36 classes, shall be complied with the Nice Classification at the time of renewal.

Finally, it is remarkable that filing trademark application covering more than one class is permitted but extra taxes are charged.