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The UAE has highlighted its efforts in developing an intellectual property system that plays a key role in the move to build a sustainable competitive economy in compliance with the set objectives and goals of the UAE Vision 2021.
This came during the UAE Ministry of Economy’s delegation’s participation in the ongoing 56th series of Meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, WIPO, in Geneva, Switzerland. The sessions to be covered include the General Assembly meeting of WIPO, the Coordinating Committee meeting and several key meetings of associations and unions of WIPO’s 189 member states.
The UAE delegation is led by Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al Shehhi, Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Economy, and includes Dr. Ali Ibrahim Al Hosani, Assistant Under-Secretary for Intellectual Property and Ahmed Khalfan Al Suwaidi, Director of Industrial Property.
In a speech during WIPO’s inaugural meeting and general assembly, Al Shehhi highlighted the efforts being made by the authorities, particularly the Ministry of Economy, for the development of the country’s intellectual property system, starting with the continuing work of the founding of the International Centre for Patents Registration, ICPR, in the UAE according to the highest standards, and the automation of the industrial property system, including patents, industrial designs and models and utility certificates.
He showcased the result of these efforts, which show the UAE as first among Arab countries and 41st worldwide in the Global Innovation Index 2016, and the first among Arab countries and 16th worldwide in the Global Competitiveness Index 2016- 2017.