Between December 2025 and January 2026, foreign agents asked us about several small discrepancies in POAs and owner documents. Our advice in those files:
- A signatory's name repeated twice in Latin letters, with the Arabic correct: such errors are not taken into consideration when the power of attorney is verified.
- An Arabic spelling that differs from the English owner name: since the applicant's name and address appear in English in both the publication and the registration certificate, the Arabic spelling is not important.
- A capital instead of a lower-case letter, or a hyphen, in the owner name: a minor typographical error not taken into account by the Trademark Registrar or the competent courts.
This is not a licence to be careless. The English name and address are what the record carries, and that is where accuracy really counts.
Before you redo and re-legalise a document, ask your Iraqi agent one question: is this error cosmetic, or does it touch the English name and address that will print on the publication and certificate?
Unsure whether a POA error matters in Iraq? Send it to us before you start the legalisation chain again.