UAE Legal Library

Intellectual property: UAE case law

1 leading UAE cassation judgments on intellectual property, summarised in English with the articles they apply and a link to the judgment on the court’s official service.

The legislation on this topic: Intellectual property — UAE legislation.

Federal Supreme Court 1

The first trader to register a trade name can stop a later, confusingly similar name in the same trade

Federal Supreme Court — Commercial 918/2019 · 21 April 2020

Ownership of a trade name, and the legal protection attached to it, is acquired by entry in the commercial register (Articles 59 and 68 of the Commercial Transactions Law, Federal Law No. 18 of 1993, and Article 3 of Federal Law No. 6 of 1975 on the…

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