Thursday 1 May 2014

South Korea to dispatch patent examiners to UAE for cooperation in IPR sector

News (here) that the Patent Office in the UAE is to receive support in the form of five examiners from the Patent Office in South Korea. The press release dated 30 April 2014 reads:

SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will dispatch patent examiners to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in order to beef up cooperation in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR), the finance ministry said Wednesday.

The agreement was made during discussions between the two countries at a committee meeting in Seoul. The ministerial meeting, the fourth of its kind, is a major channel for cooperation between the two countries.

The UAE has asked South Korea for assistance as it struggles with insufficient infrastructure to deal with patent applications there, the ministry said.

South Korea will send five patent examiners to the UAE, who will help evaluate the applications, the ministry said.

The two countries also discussed cooperation in construction, infrastructure and such high value added sectors as health, welfare and finance, the ministry added.

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