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

Mozambique is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest. It was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and colonized by Portugal in 1505. By 1510, the Portuguese had control of all of the former Arab sultanates on the east African coast. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east.

It is a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and the Commonwealth of Nations, and an observer of the Francophonie. Mozambique (Moçambique) was named after Muça Alebique, a sultan.

Mozambique is an LEDC (less economically developed country).

General Information

Capital:

Maputo

Population:

21 Million

Languages:

Portuguese

Government Type:

Republic

Dialing Code:

+258

Timezone:

GMT +2

Monetary Unit:

Mozambican metical (Mtn) (MZN)

More information:

Mozambique

International Arrangements

WIPO
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
PCT (Patents)
Madrid Agreement (International Registration of Marks
Madrid Protocol (International Registration of Marks)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services),
ARIPO

Patents

Types of Patents:
- Patents of Invention
- Patents PCT

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

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

DIU:
-According to the Mozambican Industrial Property Code, an applicant must file such a Declaration of Intention to Use every five years from the date of registration of the trademark, otherwise the mark will not be enforceable against third parties and it may be held to have lapsed if an interested party so requests. The time limit for filing the declarations is one year, beginning six months before and ending six months after the anniversary of the date of filing of the trademark.

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 Portuguese or with verified Portuguese translation)
- 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 seven years from the filing date.

Renewals:
Every year

Utility Models

Filing Requirements:
- Power of Attorney (in Portuguese or with verified Portuguese translation)
- Full particulars of the inventors and of the applicants.
- Drawings
- Assignment of Invention (notarized and legalized)
- Description of the novelty for the industrial model or the industrial design
- Priority document with verified Portuguese translation

Granting:
The term of protection is ten years from the filing date.
Renewable twice for two years.

Renewals
Every year

Copyrights

Mozambique hasn't signed up to the Berne Convention yet. However, your creative works may be copyright protected locally and directly in their Intellectual Property Department.

If you seek copyright protection in Mozambique, please contact us.

Domain Names

Domain extension:

.mz

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