UAE Trade Mark Office working to catch up

News reaches this part of the Empty Quarter that the Trade Mark Office in the emirates is again working hard to catch up with a backlog of work.  To assist in this, current effort, the Trade Mark Office has stopped examining applications filed in 2012 in order to deal with all issues on those filed earlier. The Trade Mark Office has run a number of similar initiatives in the past.

This part of the Empty Quarter understands well the challenges of managing a growing workload in the emirates and hopes that these initiatives will assist the Trade Mark Office in being able to deal with administrative processing quickly and efficiently going forward. There is a lot to be learnt from the notably over profitable European Community Trade Mark Office [IPEQ :  a sentence I never thought to type!] who have been able to drive efficiency, speed up processing, reduce use of paper, generally make as much information available as possible and improve the quality of decisions given. Is there any chance IPEQ wonders of some of that bountiful EU cash assisting EU rights holders in the Middle East?