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Filing Requirements:

Trademarks: Ghana


  Trademark/ Service Mark Requirements:
  1. Power of attorney simply signed (Power Form).

  2. Printing block and ten prints of the trademark (not needed for word mark).

 

General Information:

Classification Of Goods / Services:

1.      The International Classification of goods is followed.

2.      Member of the Paris Convention, but priority claims are not accepted

 

Claiming Priority Under Paris Convention: Yes.

 

Registerable: Trademarks, certification marks.

 

Time from filing to registration: 30 months.

 

Registration Duration: 7 years from filing date.

 

Renewal Duration: 14 years.

 

Renewal Application: Within 3 months before expiry.

 

Publication: After application, in the Official Trademark Gazette.

 

Opposition Period: 2 months.

 

Use: Non-use for 5 years following registration makes the registration vulnerable to cancellation.

 


 

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