International trademark registrations made before OAPI UNION Patent and Trademark Office grants a protection in all member countries of OAPI UNION with only one application. 

Advantages:

• Providing protection in all of OAPI UNION member countries with one application 
• Only one language usage 
• Only one currency usage 
• Assignment and changes in name can be made with only one application 

Member Countries of OAPI UNION

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo.