Instructions for Verifying the Validity of Trademarks

Analysis

The Jordanian Standards and Metrology Organisation (‘the Organisation') has issued new instructions for verifying the validity of trademarks entering Jordan through borders or through the market scanning program (this is a program set up in 2000 by the Organisation to scan the market for counterfeit products and destroy those that do not comply with the meteorology standards set by the Organisation).

Under the new instructions, No 6 of 2012 (‘the Instructions'), the Organisation has established the ‘Unit for Fighting Counterfeiting, Investigation and Reporting' (‘the Unit'). This is a specialised unit whose purpose is to follow up complaints received from the Internal Control Directorate, which is a directorate inside the Organisation that deals with complaints received from the owners of affected trademarks.

Article 3 of the Instructions details the mechanism by which the Unit is to verify the product holding the trademark. The Unit is to receive the product from the Internal Control Directorate or affected trademark owner, with the following attached:

a) If the product entered Jordan through its borders:

The serial number of the Customs declaration.
The date of the Customs declaration.
Import invoice.