Khaberni - The number of patents registered from the beginning of the year until the end of last November was 105 patents, 3 of them local.
According to data from the Industrial Property Protection Directorate in the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Supply, the number of registered trademarks reached 4223 by the end of last month, while the total number of renewed trademarks during the same period was 5575.
According to the data, the Directorate renewed 504 patents, granted 13 trademark usage licenses, allowed the change of name and address for 1038 industrial properties, and transferred the ownership of 1821.
The number of trademarks registered last year was 5687, and the number of renewed trademarks 6245, while the number of registered patents was 111, of which 8 were local.
According to the law, a patent is any creative idea reached by the inventor in any of the technology fields, related to a product or a manufacturing method or both, which solves a specific problem in any of these fields.
Registering a patent includes all procedures related to patent applications that are submitted to the office starting from the stage where inventors are guided on how to submit the patent application to the issuance 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 in the law, as well as a series of operations related to patent applications, which are carried out to meet the needs of third parties from the public (the public excluding applicants, agents, and inventors); such as publication in the Official Gazette or record inspection procedures.
A trademark is any visible sign that a person uses or intends to use to distinguish his goods or products or services from those of others.
