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UAE

INVENTORS

SOCIETY

LAUNCHED

The Ministry of Community Development has declared the creation of the UAE
Inventors Society to promote volunteerism in the area of patents, patent awareness,
knowledge dissemination and to support national capacities in it.
An announcement to this effect was made by Hessa Eissa Buhumaid, the minister for
community development, as per ministerial decision No. 304.
The society is working to give a boost to inventors in technical terms and develop their
skills through the establishment of specialized courses, conferences, exhibitions and
forums related. The measures will help highlight their inventions and support them
technically, artistically and legally.
The objectives of the society are to focus on the role of the inventors in the community
and hold them up as examples.
The society will establish a national registry, besides awards in the areas of various
inventions, with support for preparation and development programmes, besides
training staff in the field of inventions and investment in inventions of their own or
partnership with others.
The society will undertake in accordance with its declaration to provide advice to
governmental and non-governmental organizations in the area of patents and to

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