Algeria IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

Algeria is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area. It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Western Sahara in the west, Morocco in the northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 km² with an estimated population near to 35,000,000. The capital is Algiers.

Algeria is a member of the Arab League, United Nations, African Union and OPEC. It also contributed towards the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union.

General Information

Capital:

Algiers

Population:

34 Million

Languages:

French

Languages:

Algerian Arabic

Main exports:

Oil and gas

Government Type:

Presidential Republic

Dialing Code:

+213

Timezone:

GMT +1

Monetary Unit:

Algerian Dinar (DZD)

More information:

Algeria

International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Literary and Artistic Works)
PCT (Patents)
PLT (Patent Law Treaty)
Madrid Agreement (International Registration of Marks)
Madrid Agreement (False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Lisbon Agreement (Appellations of Origin)
Nairobi Treaty (Olympic Symbol

Patents

Types of Patents
Patents of Invention
Patents PCT

Filing Requirements
Patents of Invention
- Power of Attorney (in French or in Arabic)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants
- Specification, claims and abstract in French and in Arabic
- Drawings
- Deed of Assignment of Invention (notarized and legalized, in French)
- Priority document with verified (in French)

Patents PCT
- Power of Attorney (in English or French)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Specification, claims and abstract in English or French
- Copy of the published international search report
- Copy of the published international application
- Priority document with verified English or French translation

Granting
The term of a patent is twenty years from the filing date.

Renewals
Every year (in the date of filing or the priority date)

Trademarks

Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney (in French)
- 2 prints of the trademark
- The full particulars of the applicant
- The list of the goods and/or services to be covered by the trademark and classes.
- Priority document with verified French translation

Granting
The protection is for ten years, and starts from the date of application

Renewals
Every ten years

Designs and Models

Filing Requirements
- Power of Attorney (in French)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Graphic representation or a sample of the model
- Assignment of Invention (notarized and legalized)
- Description of the novelty for the industrial model or the industrial design

Granting
The term of protection is ten years from the filing date.

Renewals
Every year

Copyrights

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

As a member of the Berne Convention, it is possible to copyright protect creative works in this country, as well as all the other member nations automatically (more than 160 countries), with one single application.

For more information and to submit us your works for worldwide copyright protection, click here.

Domain Names

Domain extension:

.dz

Requirements:
- Have a local presence in Algeria, or
- Have a registered trademark in Algeria (application is not enough); it can be a national Algerian trademark or an international trademark designating Algeria. Trademark must exactly match the domain you wish to register. If you don’t have a trademark in Algeria, you can apply for it here.

Downloadable Files

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Algeria IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names