83 Patents Registered in Jordan Since the Beginning of the Year

Al-Taj News – The number of patents registered since the beginning of the year through the end of last August reached 83, two of which were local.

According to data from the Directorate of Industrial Property Protection at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply, the number of registered trademarks reached 4,875 by the end of last August, while the total number of trademarks renewed during the same period reached 3,760.

The Directorate renewed 364 patents and granted 14 licenses to use trademarks. It also approved changes to the names and addresses of 966 industrial properties and the transfer of ownership of 695.

According to the law, a patent is any creative idea reached by an inventor in one of the fields of technology, relating to a product, a method of production, or both, and leading to a solution to a specific problem in any of these fields.

The registration of a patent includes procedures related to patent applications submitted to the office, starting with guiding inventors on how to submit a patent application and ending with the issuance of the final patent certificate.

These procedures also include a set of technical and formal processes related to examining the application to ensure that it meets all the requirements stipulated by law, in addition to a set of processes related to patent applications that are carried out to meet the needs of third parties from the public, meaning the public excluding applicants, agents, and inventors, such as publication in the Official Gazette or procedures for accessing the register.

A trademark is defined as any visible sign used or intended to be used by any person to distinguish their goods, products, or services from the goods, products, or services of others.