Panama Trademark Registration

The Republic of Panama is signatory of the following multinational conventions on intellectual property rights:

  • The Universal Copyright Convention
  • Berne Convention from 1886 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
  • The Buenos Aires Convention from 1910
  • Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)

In our country there is no distinction between marks of commerce and trademarks or between national marks and foreign marks. The only distinction established by the law is between trademark used to distinguish goods and service mark in regards to services.

With the elimination of the distinction between national and foreign trademarks, the requirement of filing a certified copy of the home registration, or of the home application, in order to file a foreign trademark application in Panama is eliminated.

Further, all pending Panamanian trademark applications based on foreign applications will proceed to registration without the neccessity of filing the home registration once it has been issued.

Thetabiz Corporation offer Panamanian trademark registration for the fee of US $800 per mark.