Zimbabwe - Register a Trade Marks

ProcedureEdit

The application for registering a Trade Mark should be made through the Department of Deeds Companies & Intellectual Property.
First, an application for registration of a trade mark must be filed with the national trade mark office, which in this case is the Zimbabwe Intellectual Property Office.
The application must contain 10 clear reproductions of the mark filed for registration, including any colours, forms, devices or three-dimensional features.
The application must also contain a list of goods or services to which the mark would apply. The mark must fulfill certain conditions in order to be protected as a trade mark or service mark.
The application should be made with Form T.M 5 which can be obtained from the office and 10 identical logos and US$200.00.
After the application is submitted , a search for the similar kind of logo is done, just to make sure a duplicate or a close match of another is not already registered.
If no match has been found an advertisement is placed in a journal for a fee, if there is no opposition for the trademark to be registered, the registration is made.
Following listed are office contact information which can help.

Department of Deeds Companies & Intellectual Property

Harare Office :

Century House ,

East, 38 Nelson Mandela Avenue,

Harare.

Phone:+263 4 777373, 775545-6

Fax: +263 4 777372

Bulawayo Office

Physical address:

Tredgold building

2nd fl room 222 Fort

Street/leopold Takawira Street Bulawayo

Postal address:

Box 214 Bulawayo

Contact numbers: 09] 61601-2

Fax: 889047

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Required DocumentsEdit

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Office Locations & ContactsEdit

Department of Deeds Companies & Intellectual Property
Harare Office :
Century House ,
East, 38 Nelson Mandela Avenue,
Harare.
Phone:+263 4 777373, 775545-6
Fax: +263 4 777372

Bulawayo Office
Physical address:
Tredgold building
2nd fl room 222 Fort
Street/leopold Takawira Street Bulawayo

Postal address:
Box 214 Bulawayo
Contact numbers: 09] 61601-2
Fax: 889047
For more contact information : More Contact

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InstructionsEdit

The rights applied for cannot be the same as, or similar to, rights already granted to another trademark owner.
It must be distinctive, so that consumers can distinguish it as identifying a particular product, as well as from other trademarks identifying other products. It must neither mislead nor deceive customers or violate public order or morality.

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