Experts call for revising Arab laws on patent rights

A coordination meeting of Arab patent rights bodies, held in Rabat recently, called Arab countries to revise the laws on patent rights laws and adapt them to international conventions.

Participants also recommended to speed up preparations for the creation of an Arab patent rights office and called for further coordination among Arab patent rights bodies under the banner of the Arab organization for industrial and mining development.

Other moves considered by experts are translating into Arabic of different conventions and agreements on patent rights and unification of terminology used in the Arab world.

The meeting, held by the Arab organization for industrial and mining development, was attended by representatives from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and a delegate of the World Copyright Organization.