Types of intellectual property rights and protection

Types of intellectual property rights and protection

The world celebrated World Intellectual Property Rights Day on the 26th of last month. In the Swiss capital, Geneva, the world’s intellectual property rights organization is located.

(WIPO) in an elegant and beautiful building, with distinct efforts in the registration of patents and others in the field of intellectual property, and as an organization of UN-Women, it draws its laws from the articles of the 1948 “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.


Saudi Arabia cornerstone of the protection of copyright

Established in 1976 and joined by Saudi Arabia in 1982, the organization presents itself as the “International Forum for Intellectual Property Services  Policy, Information and Cooperation”, organized (WIPO) A workshop with the Government of the Kingdom in 2004 in Stockholm.

which initially stated that Saudi Arabia sponsors intellectual property rights “under Royal Decree No. M/11, which is the cornerstone of the protection of copyright and neighboring rights in the Kingdom.

Article 18 of the Decree provides for the protection of adjacent classifications and rights if the protected topic has been published or performed for the first time in the Kingdom or if its author is a Saudi citizen “.

A national workshop (WIPO) for judges indicated that the Ordinance grants the protection of works covered by the author’s right in accordance with international conventions and treaties signed by the Kingdom.