According to a jurisdictional update published on 23 September by the IP firm JAH & Co, the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy has extended the penalty-free renewal window for Gaza trade marks for a third time by Administrative Decision No. 154 of 2026, dated 16 September and published on 17 September. Under the decision, trade marks that fell due for renewal while the office was not operating can be renewed at the standard official fee until 17 October, with late renewal fines waived. The two earlier extensions came in a circular of 30 July and an administrative decision of 10 August, which set the penalty-free deadlines at 11 August and 10 September respectively.
A note by the law firm Rouse in early August records that the Gaza registry resumed a phased service for new applications, renewals, publications and recordals from 26 July 2026 and that the waiver covers registrations that expired during the suspension since 7 October 2023.
JAH & Co adds that Palestinian trade mark law itself provides a statutory one-month grace period, that marks remain renewable after the penalty-free window until the Registrar formally serves a mandatory cancellation notice, and that a final one-month period to respond follows that notice.
The relief is aimed at marks whose renewal fell due during the closure and consists of waiving the late renewal fines, not of reducing the renewal fee itself.
What matters to clients here is the timetable rather than the policy narrative: after nearly two years of closure the Gaza registry is operating again, and the administration has used three consecutive extensions to give owners a window to catch up on renewals, but each extension has been about a month long and banking and remittance channels in Gaza remain unreliable, so the usable preparation time is shorter than it looks.
J&C recommends that owners of Gaza registrations not wait any longer because of the further extension: check now every Gaza registration that has expired or falls due since October 2023, complete the portfolio review and instruct local counsel to renew, allowing time for remittances and authorisation documents so that filings land before 17 October; prepare registration certificates and past renewal records for any file that has to be reconstructed after destruction; and assume that, absent a new extension, late renewals will then carry the normal fines and a cancellation risk.
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