There are many types of trademarks in Cuba. Let’s take a look at them based on their legal provisions.

The current trademark laws in Cuba are Decree No. 68 on Inventions, Scientific Discoveries, Industrial Designs, Trademarks and Appellations of Origin, which came into effect on May 14, 1983, and the Industrial Property Law promulgated on April 4, 1936. and related implementation details are abolished at the same time; Regulation No. 1046 of September 9, 1983 (based on the revision of Regulation No. 999 promulgated on June 13, 1983). The right to register trademarks in Cuba is based on the principle of first registration. It accepts applications for registration of commodity trademarks, service marks, series trademarks, joint trademarks and collective trademarks, and adopts the classification method of the Nice Agreement on the Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration. Cuba is a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Madrid Agreement on the Registration of Trademarks, the Madrid Protocol on the Registration of Trademarks, the Nice Agreement on the Classification of Goods and Services for the purpose of Registration of Trademarks, the Pan-American Mutual Assistance Treaty, the Protection of Origin The name and its* registration are members of the Lisbon Agreement and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

2. Review

Cuban trademark registration follows the principle of announcement first and then substantive review. After receiving the trademark application documents, the Trademark Office will conduct a formal review of the trademark application, send an acceptance notice to applications that meet the requirements, and notify applications that do not meet the requirements to make corrections within a time limit. After the trademark application passes the formal review, the trademark information will be published in official documents for third parties to lodge objections. Any third party can raise objections within the 2-month announcement period.

If there is no third-party objection or the objection is not established, the trademark review will enter the substantive review stage. During the substantive examination stage, the examiner will examine the registrability of the trademark. The applicant must respond to the notice of opinion issued by the examiner within 60 days, otherwise the application will be deemed abandoned. If the applicant is dissatisfied with the examiner's ruling, the applicant may file a lawsuit with the People's Civil and Administrative Tribunal of Havana within 30 days from the date of notification of the ruling. If you are still dissatisfied with the ruling, you can appeal to the Cuban Supreme Court within 5 days from the date of notification of the court decision. Trademark registration is valid for 10 years from the date of application, and renewal is also valid for 10 years. The trademark owner can apply for renewal 6 months before the expiration of the trademark, and the extension period is 6 months.