The Commercial Control and Consumer Protection Sector in the Dubai Economy revealed the latest updates related to trademark and agency agencies files, as it showed that the number of active brands reached 5157 files during the past year, an increase of 34% over their number in 2018, which recorded 3,844 files, while it reached The number of files of commercial agencies in 2019 to 50 files, which means achieving a qualitative leap from 22 files in 2018, with an increase of 127%.

Trademarks

The Dubai Economy said in a statement yesterday that American brands acquired the largest share, with 1585 files, representing 31% of the total files received, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 818 files, or 16%, while Germany ranked third with 373 files. Over 7%. The marks coming from France, Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, the British Virgin Islands, India, China, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Canada, managed to reserve their position on the list of the top 14 countries.

Intellectual property

Mohamed Ali Rashid Lootah, Executive Director of the Commercial Control and Consumer Protection Sector in Dubai Economy said, “This outcome confirms the important role played by Dubai’s economy, not only in attracting the best and highest quality brands from around the world, but also working hard through Our various channels provide protection for intellectual property rights, and ensure that trademarks registered in the emirate are not violated. ”

He added that «recording an increase of 34% over the number of trademark files, reflects the size of the purchasing power of the retail sector in the Emirate of Dubai, the size of competition between trademark owners, as well as their confidence in the Dubai economy in preserving their rights».

Lootah clarified that, in the aspect related to infringement of trademarks and agencies, Dubai Economic represented by the Department of Intellectual Property Protection received 298 cases of infringement and determination of marks, reflecting a marginal increase of 1%, in addition to 35 cases of infringement of commercial agencies during the year The past, noting that the number of cases registered in 2018 reached 42 cases, a decrease of 17%.

Infringement cases

Lootah reported that 58 cases were recorded counting on the American marks, and 43 cases for each of the Emirati and French marks, followed by Swiss marks by 36 cases, then German with 23 cases, then Italian with 16 cases, and the British with 15 cases, then Japan 12 cases, and Spain Seven cases, while the remaining infringement cases were divided into trademarks belonging to 24 countries. As for the classification of cases according to goods and services for the year 2019, Lootah explained that «the issues that target perfumes were ranked first through 35 cases, followed by cosmetics 32 cases, then personal care products 30 cases, and non-metal jewelry 28 cases, and 28 cases each From clothes, telephones and accessories, 14 cases for bags and leather products, 11 for motors and machines, 10 for glasses, eight cases for food products, seven cases for advertising and restaurants, and six cases for watches and auto parts.

American brands acquire the largest share in 1,585 files.