NEWS
Kuwait: Final GCC Country with PCT Membership
Kuwait became the 149th member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on June 9, 2016, and the sixth Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member state to accede to ...
Syria: Increase in Official Fees
Pursuant to Ministerial Decision no. 1171 of 2016, the official fees of trademarks and designs have increased in Syria. The new rates became effective as of May ...
Bahrain: Substantial Increase in Official Fees and Introduction of Online Publication
Pursuant to Ministerial Decree no. 65 of 2016 approving the Implementing Regulations of the GCC Trademark Law, the official fees for trademark related matters have increased significantly ...
Iraq: Formalities for Class 5 Applications Revised
Pursuant to an official notification issued by the Ministry of Health on April 3, 2016, which was addressed to the Industrial Property Office, a revised set of ...
Jordan: Promoting the Use of Arabic on Signboards
Jordan is expected to join Egypt, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Syria in their call for the compulsory use of the Arabic script of a ...
MENA: Roots for the Protection of Plant Varieties
Plant variety laws, among other norms of positive legal systems such as trademark and patent laws, were introduced in the past in some countries in the Middle East ...
Kuwait: Patent Protection via GCC Patent Office Only
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Trade and Industry approved Law no. 115 of 2016 on the regulations implementing patent Law no. 71 of 2013. The new Law was ...
MENA: A Move towards E-Filing
There has been a move towards electronic filing over the past few years in several countries of our region, namely Algeria, Azerbaijan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco, ...
Qatar: Patent Grievances Committee
Now that the Qatari Patent Office has been actively examining patent applications for the past several months and has even issued decisions on several applications, there is ...
