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The number of patents registered from the beginning of the year until the end of last September reached 83, two of which were local.
According to data from the Industrial Property Protection Directorate at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply, the number of registered trademarks reached 5,244 by the end of last September, while the total number of renewed trademarks in the same period reached 4,226.
The Directorate renewed 413 patents, granted 14 trademark usage licenses, authorized the change of name and address for 1,056 industrial properties, and transferred the ownership of 762.
According to the law, a patent is any creative idea reached by an inventor in any field of technology, relating to a product, a manufacturing process, or both, which leads to solving a specific problem in any of these fields.
Patent registration includes procedures related to patent applications submitted to the office, starting from the stage where inventors are guided on how to submit a patent application, and ending with the issuance of the final patent certificate.
These procedures also include a set of technical and formal operations related to examining the application to ensure it meets all the conditions stipulated by law, and a set of operations related to patent applications, which are carried out to meet the needs of third parties (the public, excluding applicants, agents, and inventors); such as publication in the Official Gazette or procedures for viewing the register.
A trademark is any visible sign used or intended to be used by any person to distinguish their goods, products, or services from the goods, products, or services of others.
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