Intellectual Property

Challenges for Corporate Intellectual Property Rights in GCC

With the growing conversion of intellectual ideas and human creativity into commercial business, the need to protect human efforts at least for a specified period of time increased. The increasing problems of piracy, commercialization and cross border trade pressed the need for national and international protection of human efforts commonly referred to as Intellectual Property Rights. The countries in the GCC region have taken efforts for the protection of Intellectual property rights (IPR). However, development of a common legal framework,...