To avoid competitors copying success for their own easy gain, it has become imperative to protect assets, trademarks and intellectual property and hence legal expertise is required. Subtle issues that harm your brand success may crop up that need to be addressed on time. With our strong network, Horwath Mak can register your trademark not only in U.A.E., but also anywhere in the world in a fast and efficient manner.

Intellectual property can be defined as the content of the human intellect deemed to be unique and original and to have marketplace value—and thus to warrant protection under the law. Intellectual property includes but is not limited to ideas; inventions; literary works; chemical, business, or computer processes; and company or product names and logos. Intellectual property protections fall into four categories: copyright (for literary works, art, and music), trademarks (for company and product names and logos), patents (for inventions and processes), and trade secrets (for recipes, code, and processes).

Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United Arab Emirates to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:

• To reproduce the work in copies;
• To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
• To distribute copies of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
• To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and   other audio-visual works;
• To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial,   graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
• In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

A patent is a right granted to an inventor for an invention, which in most cases is a product or a process of a new way of creating something or providing a new solution to a certain technical problem.
Once granted, a patent confers protection upon the owner thereof. The period of protection ranges between 15 to 20 years. The protection period is not renewable except in rare and particular cases.
In order for an invention to be patentable, it must be new, capable of solving an existing technical problem and liable to practical application in industry.

A trademark is any word; name, symbol or device used, or intended to be used, in interstate commerce to distinguish the products and services of one company or individual from those of another. In addition to names and logos, trademarks can include any device that distinguishes the source of goods or services. This can include color (e.g., pink for insulation) or even sounds (e.g., NBC's chimes).