The Treaty seeks to simplify formal procedures for protecting designs by establishing minimum unified requirements for registering design applications. It provides a legal framework to streamline and standardise the process and requirements for design applications examined by intellectual property authorities in WIPO member states.

It also assists applicants in obtaining protection for their designs in accordance with the requirements related to the application details, design depictions, filing dates, and publication process.

This milestone reinforces Saudi Arabia’s position as a global hub for supporting innovative initiatives. It reflects the Kingdom’s commitment to fostering an encouraging environment for creativity, protecting designers’ rights, and contributing to the growth of the creative industries worldwide.

The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property hosted the Diplomatic Conference on adopting the Designs Law Treaty in Riyadh from 11 to 22 November 2024. The event brought together member states of WIPO, with attendance from decision-makers and officials.

For more information, please contact saudi-arabia@qumsieh.com.

The search portal launched on 28 October 2021.

For more information, please contact bahrain@qumsieh.com.

On 12 March 2019, EIPO arranged a pilot workshop for IP agents to get insight of the new system.

Agents can now file a trademark application and upload the documents through the system. An officer in EIPO will review the application and verify that the supporting documents are sufficient and valid. Once an application gets approved by an officer, the trademark owner of its agent shall go to EIPO to submit the original documents and pay the prescribed fees.

For further information, please contact ethiopia@qumsieh.com.

The WIPO Conference on Innovation and Climate Change, which brings together major stakeholders – international organizations, government, industry, and civil society – will focus on innovation partnerships between the public and private sector to develop and diffuse relevant technologies. WIPO Director General Francis Gurry and Mr. Luis Alfonso de Alba, Ambassador, Special Representative for Climate Change, Mexico, will open the Conference.

Research and development (R&D) partnerships, coupled with an enabling policy environment, are critical to the process of innovation. The Conference will address how the principal factors stimulating innovation can be integrated into coherent strategies that span across R&D, national production capabilities, access to markets, effective regulations, and sound intellectual property management.

The intellectual property system is one of the principal policy tools providing incentives for innovation, for investment in research and development, and in structuring collaborations, joint ventures, and licenses aimed at transferring technological solutions. The Conference will explore options that accelerate technology transfer and diffusion, and the contribution intellectual property makes in stimulating innovation supporting innovation and the transfer, adaptation, dissemination and adoption of environmentally sound technologies. A panel discussion will explore WIPO’s work in that regard.

The Conference will cover a range of issues relating to innovation and partnership models, provide concrete examples of technology transfer relating to climate change, and address questions relating to the financing of technology diffusion. The conference is divided into four plenary sessions and three simultaneous break-out sessions.

The Conference will open 11 July 2011, at 9:30 am at the International Conference Center Geneva (CICG) Room 1. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. Registration is required for this event which is open to general public.

Many countries will start implementing this edition in which class 42 is split into classes 42, 43, 44 and 45.

This amendment to the International Classification of Goods and Services has been approved and will be adopted as of 1 January 2002 in:

• Algeria
• Iran
• Tunisia
• Saudi Arabia
• United Arab Emirates
• Lebanon

The following countries have decided not to follow this classification at present since it requires an amendment to their law:

Countries that have not yet issued a decision in this regard include:

• Bahrain
• Iraq
• Qatar
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Syria
• Kuwait
• Morocco
• Sudan
• Palestine (West Bank and Gaza)
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