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The first of its kind in the region ‘Intellectual Property Gateway’ an electronic gateway was launched in Dubai for receiving complaints on trademark infringement through The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection, CCCP, sector in the Department of Economic Development DED’s website.

The Ministerial Resolution No. 239 for 2011 in Yemen, which is related to the classification system administered for trademark registrations in Yemen, has received a recent amendment.

It has been decided that trademark registrations in which the class includes the class header are not to

Starting from March 2016, all trademark renewal applications filed in KSA - Saudi Arabia will be filed using the online filing system. With this update, comes an increase in publication fees, to SAR3,000 equivalent to USD822 dollars, in line with the previous increases applied when trademark

The Ministerial Resolution No. 137 for 2016 in UAE is a stepping stone towards achieving the Emirati strategy and vision to see the UAE emerge as one of the world’s top countries in the area of intellectual property rights protection by 2021, and raise public awareness of the importance of IPR