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Merge 104.8 | 07 June 2020
Oman’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) continues to support innovators in the Sultanate, receiving 162 patent applications between April and May 2020.
As Oman News Agency (ONA) reports, the MoCI is making concerted efforts to support inventors by conducting preliminary searches of their inventions and providing them with the research results so that they can know the strength of their ideas. The MoCI is also striving to aid in the possibility of protecting those ideas for innovations via search efforts among documents similar, or close to, the ideas of Oman’s inventors in international databases in order to save effort, money, and time for the owner of the idea.
As per ONA, this procedure reduces repeated ideas, focuses on new and qualitative ideas, and provides technical advice to inventors on the use of patents in different databases of invention, along with the technical information they contain due to their scientific additions in developing local patents. This facilitates transfers of technology from these inventions, to make use of them locally — which contributes in providing an appropriate support environment for innovators by furthering procedures required to preserve their rights.
The MoCI clarified that the number of patent applications registered online during April and May 2020 amounted to 35 from a total of 162 patent applications, including 12 patent applications related to facing the effects of the coronavirus. There are other applications under registration, under the follow-up of specialists, with the owners of these innovations.
Twenty applications were also registered for trademarks — including special trademarks for electronic applications that contribute towards providing services to society, and three applications submitted for literary works.
Source: ONA
(Also read: Oman: National efforts in innovation to curb COVID-19 earn praise from private sector.)
