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IFIA M agazine - S ept ember 2019 |

IP & INTERNATIONAL PATENT

PROTECTION WORKSHOP IN IRAQ

The one-day workshop was organized in two sessions of morning and af-
ternoon with the participation of the international expert “ Mr. Bijan Nasiri
Azam ” as the main speaker. All of the questions posed by the audience
were answered and finally all of the participants agreed on the important
and scientific output of this workshop which will be submitted to the min-
istry of education and scientific research.

further examine the different parts of Intellectual Property and how they The level of satisfaction
are protected, the practices to be taken by the Iraq government for the of this workshop’s par-
international protection of inventions belonging to Iraqi researchers was ticipants about the discus-
investigated due to the presence of the representative of the minister of sions provided on patent
education and scientific research of Iraq. Moreover, some proposals were protection and scientific
provided about how to strengthen the database of Iraq Patent Office to achievements was evalu-
promote the patented inventions in this database. ated at the end of the
workshop. The survey in-
dicated that all of the par-
In the second session, the patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the methods of ticipants were completely
protections, its advantages as well as the importance of Iraq’s membership satisfied with both the sci-
in PCT was presented to the participants. Iraq has already joined the Paris entific content of the pro-
convention but it is not a member of PCT. Furthermore, teaching IP rights gram and the presentation
to the attorneys in Iraq universities is one the required infrastructures of by the Iranian expert.
this country.

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