{"id":"uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","canonicalSlug":"uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","language":"en","title":"UAE ministry and Sharjah Publishing City sign trademark services MoU","summary":"The agreement gives free-zone customers access on request to the ministry’s trademark registration service, technical guidance and training.","body":["The UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone signed a memorandum of understanding on 19 October to improve access to trademark and investment services. Under the agreement, the free zone can make the ministry’s trademark registration service available to its customers on request.","The cooperation also covers technical guidance, staff training and joint awareness activities. The ministry said it registered 17,230 national and international trademarks in the first half of 2026; this is a reported ministry figure, separate from the new service arrangement."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"UAE ministry and Sharjah Publishing City sign trademark services MoU\n\nThe agreement gives free-zone customers access on request to the ministry’s trademark registration service, technical guidance and training.\n\nThe UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone signed a memorandum of understanding on 19 October to improve access to trademark and investment services. Under the agreement, the free zone can make the ministry’s trademark registration service available to its customers on request.\n\nThe cooperation also covers technical guidance, staff training and joint awareness activities. The ministry said it registered 17,230 national and international trademarks in the first half of 2026; this is a reported ministry figure, separate from the new service arrangement.","category":"business","region":"world","topics":["non-oil-economy","finance"],"eventDate":"2026-10-19","eventDateBasis":"The UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and Sharjah Publishing City announced their MoU signing on 19 October 2026.","publishedAt":"2026-10-20T14:30:51Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-20T14:30:51Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-20T14:24:28Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-19","translatedAt":"2026-10-20T14:22:24Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2tl9zi-ministry-economy-sharjah-publishing-city-team-help","name":"Emirates News Agency (WAM), reporting UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and Sharjah Publishing City announcement","licence":"No open reuse licence stated; factual reporting only.","checkedAt":"2026-10-20","licenseUrl":"https://www.wam.ae/","attribution":"Emirates News Agency (WAM), reporting UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism and Sharjah Publishing City announcement; factual reporting only, no text or image reused.","publishedAt":"2026-10-19"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/uae-sharjah-trademark-services-mou-oct19"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["policy-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"AE","subdivisionCode":"AE-SH"},{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"AE","subdivisionCode":"AE-SH"}],"evidenceBasis":["agreement"],"measurementPeriod":null}}