Tuesday 28 May 2013

Payment of annuities by Saudi nationals at the Saudi Arabian Patent Office

News reaches this part of the Empty Quarter that the current practice of the Saudi Arabian Patent Office (not the GCC Patent Office) is that Saudi nationals are not required to pay annuity fees.

Thursday 9 May 2013

Bahrain amendments to the Copyright Law

News on the Trade Arabia website here of amendments to the Copyright Law in Bahrain. The article refers to mandatory out of court settlements with different levels of compensation for intentional and unintentional infringement and stiff penalties for unauthorised decoding of satellite signals.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Bahrain draft anti-counterfeiting law

Some details of a new anti-counterfeiting law in Bahrain have been made available on the Gulf News website here, and on the Trade Arabia website here.

The part of the Empty Quarter welcomes this news.

UAE draft anti-counterfeiting law

Details of a draft of a new anti-counterfeiting law in the United Arab Emirates are available from an article in Gulf News

The part of the Empty Quarter welcomes this news.