Khaberni - The number of patents registered since the beginning of the year until the end of last October is 99 patents, 3 of which are local.
According to the data from the Directorate of Industrial Property Protection at the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Supply, the number of trademarks registered until the end of last October reached 3821, while the total number of renewed trademarks in the same period was 5575 trademarks.
According to the data, the Directorate renewed 504 patents, granted 13 trademark use licenses, allowed changes in the name and address of 1038 industrial properties, and transferred the ownership of 1821.
The number of trademarks registered last year was 5687, and the number of renewed trademarks was 6245, while the number of registered patents was 111, including 8 local ones.
According to the law, a patent is any inventive idea achieved by the inventor in any of the technological fields, relating to a product or a method of manufacture or both, which solves a specific problem in any of these fields.
The registration of a patent involves all the procedures related to patent applications that are submitted to the office from the stage in which inventors are guided on how to file the patent application to the issuing of the final patent certificate.
These procedures include a series of technical and formal operations related to examining the application to ensure it meets all the conditions stipulated by law. It also includes a series of operations connected to patent applications, which are implemented to meet the needs of the third party from the public (the public excluding the registrants, agents, and inventors); such as publishing in the official journal or procedures for inspecting the record.
A trademark is any visible sign used or intended to be used by a person to distinguish their goods, products, or services from those of others.
