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Arab World: Opportunities and Risks for Pharma
The three primary criteria for a pharmaceutical company to investigate when building a marketing strategy are market size and growth, protection of intellectual property rights and enforcement ...
IP HIGHLIGHTS: Expanding Medical Devices Patent Protection to the Growing Middle East Market
Pharmaceutical companies have become aware of the importance of extending their patent portfolios to the rapidly growing Middle Eastern market. The region witnessed a remarkable development of ...
Kuwait: Registration Certificates of Designs are Available Now
The Kuwaiti Patent Office has announced that it is now possible for applicants of design applications in the country to ask for the registration certificate of their ...
Jordan: A New Regulation for Trademark Assignment
A new regulation on trademark assignment No. 55 of 2014 was recently introduced in Jordan. This regulation includes a list of articles related to trademark assignment, license ...
IP HIGHLIGHTS: First to File Countries
Almost all countries of our region are civil law countries with the code typically exhaustively covering the complete system of the law. This being said, the first-to-file ...
Oman: Seminar on Copyright and Related Rights Protection
The Intellectual Property Department in Oman organized in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) a seminar aiming at strengthening copyright protection in the country. The ...
UAE and Yemen: Towards More Effective IP Protection…
Saba Offices in the UAE and Yemen have joined their efforts to seek more effective protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the region. They have collaboratively organized ...
UAE: Changes in the Examination Formalities
The UAE Trademark Office (TMO) has issued on May 19, 2014, Decision no. 3 of 2014 (to be implemented as of June 1st, 2014) stating that it ...
Qatar: Revision of Formalities
The Qatari Trademark Office has recently announced that it is now required to have the priority document legalized. This means that certified priority documents will no longer be ...
