Trademark registration in Saudi Arabia
We will settle the Arabic form of your name, file the trade mark with the authority, pay each invoice inside the window it carries, and say whether the next country belongs in the same filing.
Final invoice
Итоговая пошлина
SAR 5,000
5 000 риялов
Time to pay it
Срок на оплату
30 days
30 дней
Publication
Публикация
60 days
60 дней
Madrid route opens
Мадрид открывается
8 October 2026
8 октября 2026 года
When you need a Saudi trademark registration
You are entering the Saudi market
A commercial register entry names the company. The mark names what you sell under, and until it is on the authority's register that name belongs to nobody.
The international route just opened
Until October 2026 there was one way in, and it was a local filing. An owner with marks elsewhere now has a second option, and a decision to make about which to use.
An invoice is waiting on your answer
The authority issues the final invoice and gives thirty days to settle it. Miss that window and the work of the preceding months is standing still.
Your name reads differently in Arabic
The way a brand transliterates decides what people actually search and say. It is settled before the application, never after the objection.
A partner asks who owns the brand
Distribution and franchise talks open with the registration number. Without one there is nothing to license and nothing to put in the schedule.
What you get
- A search read against your goods
- The application lodged with the authority
- Every invoice paid inside its window
- The registration certificate itself
- The renewal year and its grace period
What is required for a Saudi trade mark
Marks here are registered by the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, online, through its own trademark portal. The authority publishes an amount for each stage and a clock for the procedure as a whole, and the stages are invoiced one after another rather than together.
One portfolio held across many registers is the wider picture, and it lives on our page for brands, inventions and content. Everything else the Kingdom asks of a company sits on the Saudi Arabia page.
What the authority charges
| Stage | Official amount |
|---|---|
| Registration application | SAR 1,000 |
| Publication | SAR 500 |
| Registration and certificate | SAR 5,000 |
| Renewal, final year of protection | SAR 5,500 |
| Renewal, within six months of expiry | SAR 6,500 |
| Publication of the renewal | SAR 1,000 |
The clocks the authority sets
The service card puts ninety days against the procedure. Where the mark is accepted subject to a change, the applicant is given ninety days to make it. Publication then runs for sixty days, which is the period in which somebody else can take issue with the mark.
After that the final invoice is issued and there are thirty days to pay it, and the certificate prints from the system. That thirty-day window is the one clients lose most easily, because by then the interesting part of the work looks finished.
The date the second route opened
The Madrid Protocol enters into force for the country on 8 October 2026. Before that date a local application to the authority was the only way onto the Saudi register, and the published table of designation amounts still carries no line for the country.
For an owner filing now, the practical question is whether a Saudi filing is needed on its own schedule or whether it belongs with the other Gulf states in one international application. The answer turns on how many classes and which countries.
What the file needs
- The applicant written as the commercial register writes it, plus a person who answers.
- The mark in the form it will carry, and the Arabic version where the market will see one.
- The classes, chosen one at a time inside the authority's portal.
- An authorisation for whoever acts for an organisation, accepted by the authority before filing.
What to do when somebody starts using the name anyway is brand protection.
Sources: the amounts and the ninety, sixty and thirty day periods come from the authority's own service cards for registration and renewal; the date the Madrid Protocol enters into force is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Stages of work
The search, and the Arabic form of the name.
We will read the registered marks against the goods you actually sell, and pull up look-alikes and names that land on the same idea.
At the same time we will settle how the brand is written in Arabic, because that form is part of what gets examined and part of what customers will type.
Naming the applicant and the authority to act.
The applicant is named as the commercial register names it. An organisation filing through someone acts on an authorisation the authority accepts, and we will get that in place before the portal is opened.
Choosing the classes inside the portal.
The classes are selected inside the authority's own trademark portal. We will build the list around what you sell now and what the name will need to cover as the range grows.
Lodging the application — SAR 1,000.
We will file and pay the application invoice. The authority allows itself ninety days for the procedure, and it can accept, refuse, or accept subject to a change you then have ninety days to make.
Acceptance and publication — SAR 500.
On acceptance we will settle the publication invoice, and the mark goes up for sixty days. We will watch that period and answer anything raised inside it.
The final invoice — thirty days to pay.
With the sixty days behind it, the authority issues the final invoice of SAR 5,000 and gives thirty days for payment. We will hold that date, because the certificate prints only after it is settled.
Renewals, and the choice about Madrid.
Renewal costs SAR 5,500 during the final year of the term and SAR 6,500 once it has expired, with SAR 1,000 for publication either way. We will also tell you whether the next country belongs in a separate filing or in one international application.
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