• Whoever registers a Trademark shall be deemed its sole owner. The ownership of such Trademark may not be disputed when its registration and use are continuous for at least (5) years from the date of its registration without an action being lodged against it, unless it is proven that the person who registered it is mala fide.
• The first person to use the Trademark registered in his name with the Ministry may request the Ministry to cancel this registration within (5) five years from the date of registration, unless he expressly or implicitly consents to the use of the Trademark by the person in whose name it is registered.

• The Trademark registration application may be assigned, and the ownership of the registered Trademark may be transferred, with or without consideration. Also, the Trademark may be mortgaged or attached with the commercial shop or exploitation project in which the Trademark is used to distinguish its goods or services unless otherwise agreed upon.
• The Trademark ownership is transferred by inheritance, will, gift, or any other legal form.
• In all cases, the transfer of the Trademark’s ownership, mortgage or attachment thereof shall not be enforceable against third parties unless it has been entered into the Register and announced by any means of publication, in accordance with the procedures and conditions specified in the Implementing Regulation of this Decree-Law.
• The transfer of ownership of the commercial shop or the exploitation project includes the Trademarks
  registered in the name of the owner of the shop or the project, whenever they are closely related to the commercial
  shop or the exploitation project, unless otherwise agreed upon.
• If the ownership of the commercial shop or the exploitation project is transferred without the Trademark itself,
  the transferor of ownership may continue to manufacture the same goods or provide the same services for which the
  Trademark was registered, or trade therein, unless otherwise agreed upon.

• The trademark is an valuable asset
• The owner only can exploit the trademark through commercialization, license and assignment and can be used in business negotiations.
• Only the legal owner of a trademark has standing to enforce the trademark rights and prevent any infringement upon the same.

• Filling application
• Application study
• Publishing

Following documents are required to file the application of trademark ownership transition:

• Transition requestor details: Transition requestor name, phone, email, nationality, legal nature.
• Trademark details: Trademark name, Trademark name translation English/Arabic, Trademark type, Trademark class, mark description, class number, product explanation.
• Document attachments: Trademark Registration Certificate Copy, Document Indicating The Ownership Transition and/or Modification, Trademark logo, , Passport Copy, complete home address, Power of Attorney (notarized by the Notary Public & legalized by the UAE), Priority documents if any.