KEDI & Associates is an intellectual property law firm based in Yaoundé – Cameroon. With more than 15 years of legal practice in intellectual property in the OAPI region (French speaking countries of Central and West Africa) and DR Congo, we provide expert services in trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs and copyrights. We are OAPI intellectual property specialists.
The firm was founded by Mr. Emmanuel Kedi Beh and other members of the legal profession since 2007.
Our firm’s core practice focuses on intellectual property. We also alternatively provide services in corporate and commercial practice, general investment advice, telecommunications and new technologies, real estate, due diligence, environmental law, litigation and arbitration. We conduct studies, offer training sessions on the above-mentioned services.
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Trademarks
OAPI Trademark Registration
OAPI is a multi-class jurisdiction. The
complete fees for the registration of a Trademark includes:
i. OAPI official fee
- Base registration in 1 class: USD 634
- Each additional class: USD 135
- Priority claim: USD 125
- Filing regulations determining conditions
of use of a collective / certification / co-owned Trademark: USD 215
- Divisional application: USD 634
- For Divisional Applications - Each
additional class: USD 125
ii. Professional fee
- Base registration in 1 class: USD 236.36
- Each additional class: USD 70
- Priority claim: USD 96
- Filing regulations determining conditions
of use of a collective / certification / co-owned Trademark: USD 100
- Divisional application: USD 260
- For Divisional Application - Each
additional class: USD 70
i. OAPI official fee
- Renewal in 1 class: USD 755
- Each additional class: USD 155
- Late renewal: USD 200
ii. Professional fee
- Renewal in 1 class: USD 236.36
- Each additional class: USD 100
- Late renewal USD 100
a. OAPI official fee
- Application fee: USD 416.66
- Each priority claim: USD 112
- Publication of the patent: USD 636
- Each claim above the first 10 claims: USD
80
- Length of detail description: varies
depending on the number of pages- Patent restoration : US$ 1048.99b. Professional fee
a. OAPI official fee
- Application fee: USD 650.03
- Each priority claim: USD 60
- Publication of the patent: USD 170
- Each claim above the first 10 claims: USD
45
- Length of detail description: varies
depending on the number of pages- Patent restoration : US$ 524.49
a. official fee
- 2nd to the 5th year:
USD 383
- 6th to the 10th year:
USD 653
- 11th to the 15th year:
USD 875
- 16th to the 20th year:
USD 1,132
- Late Annuity: USD 123
b. Professional fee
- 2nd to the 5th year:
USD 162
- 6th to the 10th year:
USD 162
- 11th to the 15th year:
USD 185
- 16th to the 20th year:
USD 185
- Late Annuity: USD 123
i. OAPI official fee
- Search in 1 class: USD 168
- Availability search on the audiovisual /
sound mark: USD 168
- Each additional class after the 1st: USD
18
- Search on a Trademark portfolio of a
right holder: USD 210
ii. Professional fee
- Search in 1 class: USD 120
- Availability search on the audiovisual /
sound mark: USD 150
- Each additional class after the 1st: USD
18
- Search on a Trademark portfolio of a
right holder: USD 175
Please note the following on the price schedules. Responding to an opposition, here the client pay's only the professional fee USD415.28Filing an opposition, here the client pay's both the official and professional fee USD 282.39 + 415.28 = 679.67
