Registering your trade name on the commercial register does not give you a trademark, and the two are filed, priced and enforced separately. The trademark — the one that actually stops other people using your brand — costs OMR 170 to register in a single class according to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion's own published service catalogue. That is a single fixed price covering submission, publication and registration, and essentially no law firm or consultancy page quotes it.
A trade name is not a trademark
A trade name is the name your business is entered under on the commercial register. It is governed by the trade name rules, it is checked against a list of prohibited categories, and its protection is scoped to the register — see our separate guide to trade name rules in Oman and to what a commercial registration is. Getting a trade name approved tells you only that no identical entry blocks your registration.
A trademark is the mark itself — a word, a logo, or both — registered against specified goods or services under the GCC Trademark Law, with MoCIIP's National Intellectual Property Office. It is what gives you an exclusive right you can enforce against a competitor who is not on your page of the commercial register. One historic reason foreign brands filed an Omani trademark has since gone: from 11 December 2025, on secondary reporting, the TRA revised the .om domain rules so that foreign companies may register .om, .com.om and .co.om without holding an Omani trademark — see our guide to an .om domain for your business. File because you want the right, not because a registrar used to ask for it.
MoCIIP's own price is OMR 170, all in
The gov.om service page for applying for a trademark gives one figure: OMR 170, described as covering submission, publication and registration together, with a published service duration of 100 days. There is no separate filing fee, no separate publication fee and no separate registration fee to add to it. The same catalogue prices a collective or certification mark in a single class at OMR 300.
Every secondary estimate is higher and more complicated. A country-index page builds OMR 187 out of OMR 70 filing plus OMR 50 acceptance and gazette plus OMR 50 registration plus OMR 17 newspaper. Al Tamimi & Company gives OMR 200 as OMR 50 per class plus OMR 100 publication plus OMR 50 per class. Another consultancy reaches OMR 200 as four payments of OMR 50. The Al Tamimi table is dated March 2020 — it predates both the move to online filing and the current gov.om catalogue, and it is probably the origin of most of the figures now circulating.
We are not going to pretend this is fully resolved, because one thing is missing on the official side: the OMR 170 is never itemised. gov.om gives a lump sum and publishes the split nowhere. No per-class or additional-class fee is published either, which is consistent with a catalogue built entirely around single-class services. If you need to know what you are paying for line by line, no government page will tell you.
The law in force, and the law that is not
The operative instrument is Royal Decree 33/2017, which promulgated the GCC Trademark Law in Oman. It was issued on 25 July 2017, published in Official Gazette 1204 on 30 July 2017, and under Article 53 came into force the day after publication — 31 July 2017. Article 52 repeals provisions conflicting with it. The Implementing Regulations of the GCC Trademarks Law were adopted at GCC level on 21 May 2015.
The older Industrial Property Rights Law, Royal Decree 67/2008 — issued 12 May 2008, Gazette 863, 17 May 2008 — has not disappeared. Article 47 of the GCC Law leaves it in force for matters the GCC Law does not address, which is why you will still see it cited correctly in Omani filings. What it no longer governs is the core of trademark registration: eligibility, examination, publication, opposition and term.
Royal Decree 131/2008, issued 30 November 2008 and published in Gazette 876, amended RD 67/2008. It is the source of two numbers that still circulate: a 90-day opposition window, and a cap of OMR 10,000 per infringing act on predetermined damages. Its trademark provisions were superseded on 31 July 2017. The damages cap is still quoted in civil practice; the 90 days is not the window any more.
Two corrections that most pages get wrong
The opposition window is 60 days
Article 13(2) of the GCC Trademark Law gives 60 days from the date of publication to file an opposition. That is the rule in force in 2026.
The widely quoted 90 days was not invented by anybody. It was set by Royal Decree 131/2008 and was genuine Omani law for nearly nine years, until Royal Decree 33/2017 took effect on 31 July 2017. A page carrying it is citing a repealed rule rather than making a number up — which is a useful thing to know, because it tells you the page has not been reviewed since 2017 and everything else on it is the same vintage.
A window shorter than 60 days is a different problem entirely. See the warning below.
The rest of the clock, all from the GCC Trademark Law: the examination decision is due within 90 days of filing where the application is complete (Article 11(4)); publication is required before registration (Article 13(1)); the applicant has 60 days to reply to an opposition (Article 13); an appeal to the committee is 60 days (Article 12(1)); and an appeal onward to court is 60 days from the committee's decision. Almost every deadline in the law is 60 days, which is part of why the stray 90 and 30 figures are easy to spot.
The ten years runs from the filing date
Article 19(1) is explicit — من تاريخ تقديم طلب التسجيل, from the date the application for registration was filed. Protection is 10 years from filing, renewable for successive ten-year periods. It is not ten years from the date the certificate issues. One consultancy states "10 years after registration", and that is simply wrong. The practical consequence is that however long examination takes, it comes out of your first term rather than being added to it.
Renewal is OMR 200 plus the OMR 50 Official Gazette fee, so OMR 250, with a published duration of 10 days. Article 19(2)-(3) gives a six-month grace period after expiry, and if no renewal request is filed in that window the authority cancels the mark from the register. gov.om restates the same rule from the other end: file in the final year of protection, and not more than six months after protection ends. Al Tamimi gives renewal as OMR 330 plus an OMR 50 late fine — a different figure and a penalty that, as far as we can find, no instrument prescribes.
How to tell whether a page is describing Oman or the UAE
(a) An opposition or objection window of 30 days. (b) An authority called the "Ministry of Economy". Both are UAE rules. Oman's authority is the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion (MoCIIP), and the window is 60 days under Article 13(2) of the GCC Trademark Law.
This is a test you can apply yourself, in about five seconds, to any page before you trust a single number on it. Law&Trust International triggers both halves at once: it names the Ministry of Economy and gives a 30-day objection window.
Neither fingerprint means the page is dishonest. It means somebody wrote Gulf content once and relabelled it, and the fees on that page are as likely to be Emirati as the deadlines.
Two related tells. Trademarkers names the authority as the "Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI-OM)" — that ministry was restructured into MoCIIP in August 2020 — and gives the window as "2 months". Enterslice imports a reply deadline from the Indian Trade Marks Act 1999 and, on the same page, quotes "around USD 985 per class" while also stating the Omani fee is OMR 70, roughly USD 182; both cannot be official. A separate category deserves a different correction: one consultancy's "90 days to protest" and "10 years after registration" are stale Omani law, not smuggled Gulf law. The first kind of error means the writer was working from another country. The second means the writer was working from 2008.
The official fee table, and what the durations mean
| Service | Fee | Published duration |
|---|---|---|
| Trademark registration, single class | OMR 170, fixed — covers submission, publication and registration | 100 days |
| Collective or certification mark, single class | OMR 300 | 150 days |
| Renewal, single class | OMR 200 + OMR 50 Gazette = OMR 250 | 10 days |
| Availability search | OMR 50 | 2 days |
| Assignment — transfer of ownership | OMR 100 + OMR 50 publication = OMR 150 | 15 days |
| Licence or right-of-use annotation | OMR 100 + OMR 50 publication = OMR 150 | 15 days |
| Lien or mortgage annotation | OMR 100 + OMR 50 publication = OMR 150 | 15 days |
| Amend or record trademark data | OMR 20 | 2 days |
| Associate a mark with another | OMR 5 | 1 day |
Every figure above comes from MoCIIP's own service pages on gov.om. The OMR 50 Official Gazette publication fee appears as a separate line on four different services, which is why it can be stated with confidence rather than inferred. What does not exist is a consolidated trademark fee schedule in either Arabic or English — the fees are published service by service, and assembling them into one table is something you have to do yourself or read here.
There is a more striking absence. gov.om publishes nine trademark services, and none of them is an opposition or objection service. There is no official Omani opposition fee, and no law firm publishes one either. This is a gap in both tiers of sourcing at once, which is unusual: normally when the government is silent, the consultancies fill the space with an estimate. Here nobody has.
The durations in that table are service-charter targets, not observed averages. That matters most for the headline one. gov.om says 100 days from application to registration. Practitioners do not report anything close: a country-index page says 10 to 12 months, Enterslice says 8 to 18 months, and Law&Trust says 6 months to 2 years. Every practitioner estimate is at least twice the official figure and most are five times it.
We are not going to resolve that for you, because the gap between the two is the honest answer. The 100 days is what the service commits to; the practitioner range is what people say they experience. Plan your budget and your product launch around the longer figure, hold the ministry to the shorter one, and be suspicious of any page that presents either as "the" timeline without saying which kind of number it is.
What you need to file
- Ordinary mark — the trademark image and a power of attorney. That is the whole published requirement list.
- Collective or certification mark — commercial registration, trademark image and power of attorney.
- Assignment — the transfer deed or sale contract, certified, plus a power of attorney.
- Registrability — the mark must be new, distinctive, not contrary to public order, and must not include the names of countries.
- Language — that documents must be in Arabic is stated by a secondary source, not on the gov.om service page.
Filing starts from the gov.om service page, which hands off to the service provider behind a THEQA digital-identity login. INTA reports that the underlying platform is MoCIIP's Invest Easy portal at business.gov.om, opened to registered agents. Note that gov.om does not print the actual filing URL — the "Start now" button hands off without showing you the destination, so there is no address you can check in advance. On the related question of whether a foreign applicant must appoint a local agent, we found no express statutory requirement in RD 33/2017 for a local agent or an address for service. Article 4 conditions eligibility on doing business in a member state or being from a treaty country. Online filing being opened to registered agents implies agent-mediated filing in practice, but no Omani source states it as a legal requirement.
Practitioners report a MoCIIP notice of 11 November 2024 requiring the original power of attorney, apostilled or legalised, for oppositions, appeals, name and address changes, assignments, licence recordals, changes of agent for service, amendments to applicant details, and for patents and industrial designs.
Apostille applies where the applicant's country is a member of the Hague Apostille Convention; otherwise the route is legalisation through an Omani consulate. A 60-day grace period to cure missing documents is reported alongside it.
We attribute this rather than state it, because the circular is not published on gov.om, on tejarah.gov.om or on business.gov.om. It is traceable only through practitioner reporting — INTA and Asia IP. Treat it as the working practice to prepare for, not as a rule you can cite back at a counter.
Classes, and the multi-class puzzle
Oman uses the Nice Classification and its 45 classes, which gov.om confirms explicitly on its trademark-association service page. There is a checkable wrinkle worth knowing: Oman is not listed as a party to the Nice Agreement in its WIPO Lex treaty profile. It uses the classification without being a treaty party to the instrument behind it. That has no practical effect on your filing, but it is the kind of detail that tells you whether a page has looked anything up.
Now the part nobody can resolve. Article 8 of the GCC Trademark Law permits an application for "one class or more", as the Implementing Regulations determine. But every single MoCIIP trademark service published on gov.om is scoped and priced to a single class, and no multi-class service exists anywhere in the catalogue. A country-index page flatly denies the possibility, saying a separate application has to be filed for each class. So: the law allows it, the service catalogue does not offer it, and a secondary source says it cannot be done. We report all three and resolve none of them, because no Omani government page says whether a multi-class filing can actually be made. If you need more than one class, budget as though you are filing separately and ask MoCIIP directly before you assume otherwise.
The Madrid Protocol route
Oman has been a member of the Madrid Protocol since 16 October 2007. That route is for a different situation from the one most readers are in: you file one international application through WIPO, from your home office, designating Oman among several other member countries. It is not a cheaper way to get a single Omani registration — the fees are in Swiss francs, are payable to WIPO, and are separate from the OMR 170. It earns its keep when Oman is one of five or ten markets you are filing in at once.
| Individual fee for Oman | First class | Each additional class |
|---|---|---|
| Application designating Oman | CHF 417 | CHF 417 |
| Renewal | CHF 625 | CHF 625 |
| Collective or certification mark | CHF 1,042 | CHF 1,042 |
Those are Oman's declared individual fees in WIPO's table, last updated 23 August 2026. Oman's other relevant memberships, from its WIPO Lex profile: the Paris Convention from 14 July 1999, the WTO and TRIPS from 9 November 2000, the PCT from 26 October 2001, the Trademark Law Treaty and the Patent Law Treaty from 16 October 2007, and the Hague Agreement on industrial designs from 4 March 2009.
Penalties, and where a dispute is heard now
| Provision | Conduct | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Article 42(1), GCC Trademark Law | Counterfeiting or forging a registered mark; using a forged mark; possessing counterfeiting tools | Imprisonment 1 month to 3 years and a fine of not less than OMR 500 and not more than OMR 100,000 |
| Article 42(2), GCC Trademark Law | Selling or offering counterfeit goods; unauthorised use of a mark | Imprisonment 1 month to 1 year and a fine of not less than OMR 100 and not more than OMR 10,000 |
| Article 43, GCC Trademark Law | Repeat offence | Double the maximum penalty, plus closure of the business for 15 days to 6 months |
| Royal Decree 131/2008 | Civil infringement damages | Damages to remedy the harm plus the infringer's profits; predetermined damages capped at OMR 10,000 per infringing act |
Since 1 October 2025 these disputes go to the Court of Investment and Commerce, established by Royal Decree 35/2025 — issued 23 March 2025, Gazette 1590 of 6 April 2025, operative 1 October 2025. Its jurisdiction expressly includes trademarks, patents, industrial designs and trade secrets, and Supreme Judicial Council Decision 433/2025 set up its circuits and seats. On the administrative side, MoCIIP had stood up a new inspections and enforcement department for intellectual property violations by December 2025. If you are reading a page that routes an Omani trademark dispute to the ordinary commercial court, it was written before October 2025.
What no official source publishes
- No opposition fee exists anywhere. gov.om publishes nine trademark services and none of them is an opposition or objection service. No law firm publishes an Omani opposition fee either — a gap in both tiers at once.
- The OMR 170 is never itemised. One lump sum, and the split between submission, publication and registration is published nowhere.
- No per-class or additional-class fee is published, consistent with a catalogue designed entirely around single-class services.
- No late-renewal surcharge is prescribed. Article 19 grants the six-month grace period but sets no surcharge, and the gov.om renewal page lists no late variant. The OMR 50 fine is a law-firm figure only.
- The 11 November 2024 power-of-attorney circular is not published on gov.om, tejarah.gov.om or business.gov.om. It is traceable only through practitioner reporting.
- gov.om does not print the filing URL. The "Start now" button hands off without showing the destination.
- There is no consolidated trademark fee schedule in either language.
- No express requirement for a foreign applicant to appoint a local agent or an address for service was found in RD 33/2017.
One more negative finding, stated plainly because it changes how you read everything dated recently: no amendment to Oman's trademark law was issued in 2025 or 2026. Royal Decree 66/2026, "Amending Some Laws", issued 23 June 2026 and published in Gazette 1654, amends only the Penal Law and the Labour Law. A 2026 page announcing "Oman's new trademark law" is describing RD 33/2017, which is nine years old. The genuinely new thing in this area is the court, not the law.
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If you want the filing handled, our office in Al Ghubra can prepare the application, run the OMR 50 availability search first so you are not paying OMR 170 to be refused, and deal with the power of attorney and its legalisation. What we will not do is quote you a registration date, for the reason set out above.