register your trademark
in nicaragua with us

• It is the only way of obtaining rights to the trademark.
• It provides national and/or local protection.
• It allows to demonstrate ownership of the trademark.
• It helps to discourage other people from using the trademark unlawfully.
• Trademarks allow your business to effectively utilize the social media and make your customers find you easily.
• If anyone uses your registered trademark, he/she will be presumed to be a willful infringer, and registering a trademark confers the ability to recover monetary damages as a result of the infringement.
• If you don’t register your trademark and someone else registers a trademark very similar to yours, you’ll have to change its name and spend a lot of money changing advertising. It’s also possible that you lose customers.

• Words
• Names
• Devices
• Certain three-dimensional shapes
• Colors
• Slogans
• Sounds
• Smells (olfactory trademarks)
• Trade dress/get-up
• Holograms

Trademark protection in Nicaragua lasts 10 years from the registration date and can be renewed every 10 years. A renewal application must be filed within one year before expiration date.

The approximate time from application to registration (for a prosecution without an opposition) is 12 calendar months.

An application is published for opposition purposes before formal examination of the application. The opposition period begins the day that the legal ad is published in the Gazette, Official News Paper and ends two months from the publication date.

• Name and address of the applicant.
• State or country of incorporation.
• Trademark description.
• Trademark specimen.
• List of goods or services provided.
• Power of attorney.

• Joint applicants are permitted in Nicaragua.
• Actual use or intent to use are not required for application.
• Local address for service does not need to be provided if the applicant is not domiciled in this jurisdiction.
• The list of goods and services may specify “all the goods” or “all the services” of the relevant class(es) and the relevant class heading.
• In Nicaragua, the type of registration available is national.
• All documents must be translated into Spanish by an Argentine official translator.
• All signed documents must be apostilled.
• Nicaragua uses the Nice Classification System.
• Nicaragua is a member of the Paris Convention, the Trademark Law Treaty, the Nice Agreement, the Vienna Agreement, and the Lisbon Agreement.
• Nicaragua is not a party to either the Madrid Agreement or the Madrid Protocol and may not be designated in international applications.
• European Union Trade Mark registration is not effective in Nicaragua.
• Multinational regional registrations are not available in Nicaragua.
• Applications cannot be filed online.
• The official file cannot be accessed online.

If your trademark has been successfully registered and it is time for you to renew it, you can start the procedure one year before the expiration date. There is a six-month grace period to renew the trademark after the expiration date.

If you do not renew on time, you will need to file a complete new application.

No proof of use is required for renewal. Once renewed, it will be valid for another ten-year period starting from the previous expiration date.

Trademark renewal requirements:

• Name and address of the applicant.
• Trademark name and representation.
• List of goods or services provided.
• Power of Attorney.
• Trademark registration number.