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The number of registered patents from the beginning of the year until the end of last August reached 83 patents, two of which are local.
According to data from the Industrial Property Protection Directorate at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply, the number of registered trademarks reached 4,875 until the end of last August, while the total number of renewed trademarks during the same period reached 3,760.
The Directorate renewed 364 patents, granted 14 trademark use licenses, permitted name and address changes for 966 industrial properties, and transferred the ownership of 695.
According to the law, a patent is any creative idea reached by an inventor in any of the fields of technology, relating to a product, a manufacturing process, or both, that 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 the patent application and ending with the issuance of the final patent certificate.
These procedures also include a set of technical and formal processes related to examining the application to ensure it meets all conditions stipulated by the law, as well as a set of operations associated with patent applications 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 procedures for inspecting 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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