OAPI OAPI Trademark Monitoring

Monitor trademark records from the African Intellectual Property Organization through one structured BrandCat dashboard.

The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) is a regional intellectual property office covering 17 member states. Its legal framework, the Bangui Agreement, establishes a centralized procedure for industrial property titles including trademarks. Source: OAPI

Countries Covered by OAPI

OAPI covers 17 member states under the Bangui Agreement: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, and Togo.

WIPO's Intellectual Property Fact Sheet 2024 says its office list "displays the number of IP filings received by each national and regional intellectual property office." In that dataset, OAPI is listed with 12,793 trademark class filings, ranking 68th among reporting offices for trademark filing activity. Source: WIPO

OAPI matters because it is not just another national registry. It is a regional system, so one relevant trademark record can be important across a broader group of African markets. BrandCat brings OAPI data into the same monitoring workflow as your other trademark offices, domains, and protected keywords.

Review OAPI Matches in One Clean List

BrandCat shows OAPI matches in a structured results view so you can quickly scan trademark names, owners, applicants, Nice classes, serial or registration numbers, filing dates, and status from one place.

OAPI records are usually Latin-script records, so the value here is less about transliteration and more about keeping a regional African trademark source inside the same normalized dashboard as the rest of your monitoring coverage.

OAPI trademark monitoring results list in BrandCat
Example of OAPI trademark matches inside BrandCat’s results list.

Regional Coverage Without a Separate Review Workflow

OAPI can be easy to overlook if your monitoring setup focuses only on the largest national offices. That is a mistake for portfolios with African exposure, international licensing, distribution, consumer goods, software, education, pharmaceuticals, or any brand where regional market entry matters.

BrandCat keeps OAPI records comparable with the rest of your monitored offices. Instead of checking one regional database separately, you can review OAPI matches alongside USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO Madrid, ARIPO, and other supported sources.

Open Full OAPI Trademark Details

Once an OAPI result looks relevant, BrandCat opens it in a normalized detail view. That makes it easier to review the key facts without jumping between separate registry pages and manually comparing fields.

Depending on the record, this can include serial number, registration number, status, application, registration, and expiry dates, owner and correspondent information, and Nice class details.

OAPI trademark detail view in BrandCat
Example of a single OAPI trademark record inside BrandCat.

Why OAPI Monitoring Matters

OAPI monitoring gives you visibility into trademark activity across a regional African IP system that may not be covered well by a purely country-by-country workflow. For brands watching international activity, those records can reveal local protection strategies, regional expansion, or filings that overlap with existing products and services.

In practical terms, OAPI monitoring helps you:

- review OAPI trademark records without separate manual searches
- keep regional African filings visible in the same dashboard as other offices
- compare owners, applicants, classes, dates, and status in a normalized layout
- spot potentially conflicting marks that may matter across more than one market

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Monitor OAPI trademark activity, along with domains and other major trademark offices, from one dashboard.

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Each keyword covers both Domain Lookalike monitoring and Trademark scans across major trademark offices including USPTO, CNIPA, EUIPO, UKIPO, JPO, KIPO and others.

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Each keyword covers both Domain Lookalike monitoring and Trademark scans across major trademark offices including USPTO, CNIPA, EUIPO, UKIPO, JPO, KIPO and others.


15-day money-back guarantee - No contracts - Cancel anytime