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IP & INTERNATIONAL PATENT

PROTECTION WORKSHOP IN IRAQ

Initially, Dr. Nabil Alaraji welcomed the participants
and stressed the importance of Intellectual Property
rights and Patent, expressing: “This has a tremendous
effect on the future of our country and constitutes the
alphabet of progress for modern societies. Further-
more, the protection of inventions and Intellectual
property is of immense importance and necessity”.
He also stressed on putting into practice the outputs
of this workshop in regards to the scientific achieve-
ments which play a key role in encouraging inventors
and researchers and increases their scientific level.

The Director of Alketab University, Dr. Ayad Ghany
Ismaeel, pointed out the attention this university
International Federation of Inventors’ Associations pays to the intellectual property and informed the
(IFIA) organized a training workshop on Intellectual audience of the efforts made by the university to un-
Property and International Patent Protection in Iraq on dertake it's academic, educational, and social role in
February 28th, 2019 with the purpose of raising aware- parallel the intellectual property rights. While playing
ness on the international protection of inventions. This this role, legal and ethical functions for protecting the
workshop was organized by Mr. Bijan Nasiri Azam, the rights of inventors and innovators in the world, es-
manager of IFIA IP center, with the collaboration of pecially in Iraq, is enhanced. Particularly when Iraq is
“Iraqi Society of Inventors and Innovators” supported regarded as one of the leading countries of the world
by Alketab University in Palestine Hotel, Baghdad. for benefiting from human resource who is able to
create a revolution in the field of the invention and in-
This event was organized for the first time in Iraq and novation.
was supported by the minister of education and scien-
tific research, Dr-Qusay-al-suhail. Many of the man-
agers and officers in the ministry of education and re- The president of “Iraqi Society of Inventors and In-
search, as well as inventors and researchers took part novators”, Ms. Traiza Jasim, also indicated the impor-
in the event. Dr. Muneam Alshweely, the director of tance of keeping up with the world advancements in
supervision and evaluation of private universities and regards with international treaties for protecting the
Dr. Nabil Alaraji, the director of evaluation organization rights of inventors and invited the participants to dis-
who attended the event on behalf of the minister of seminate the culture of supporting intellectual prop-
education and research were present in the workshop. erty in the country.

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