Yemen Trademark Information

Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is located in the Middle East on the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the south, and Oman to the east. The population is estimated at 23,580,000 with a GDP of $58.22 billion.

North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their border.

Trademarks are assigned through the General Department for Intellectual Property Protection under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Yemen is not a member of the Madrid Protocol. A trademark is valid for 10 years and may be renewed for further periods of 10 years each.