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The Patent Division is part of the Directorate of Commercial & Industrial Property which follows the Ministry of Economy and Trade. The staff consists of 6 officials in the office , all of whom have academic certificates .
Syrian Patent Office is carrying out the following tasks :
A – receipt of applications
B – make formal exam
C – (a) primary substantive exam , in which the application is sent to specialized authority ( universities – scientific research centers )to study it and give the scientific consultation about the inventive step and the capability of industrial application
D – granting national patents
E – publishing
I – Evolution of patent activities :
As the value of patents is becoming higher , there is continuous hard work to promote the level of work in the Directorate of Commercial & Industrial Property, and that is represented in :
► adopting new work system :
● start making prior art exam on Internet .
● continue the efforts to automate the work in the office.
► joining the international treaties :
● Syria has joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty ( PCT) which entered into force on 26.6.2003 .
► Establishing a web site for the Directorate of Commercial & Industrial Property ,the address is : www.himaya.net
The web site contains :
- Information about the D.C.I.P and the tasks of its divisions.
- Administrative law of the D.C.I.P
- Data bases of patents , trademarks and designs
- Information about Al Bassel center of invention and innovation.
► continue the work in preparing new draft laws in the field of intellectual
property in general and patents specifically, which will be more facilitating for the applicant and the office .
See attached document.
► Al Bassel center of invention and innovation follows the D.C.I.P . It has been chosen by EPO as a regional documentation and training center.
The center has the following tasks:
● gives technical consultations and education to the public in the field of intellectual property.
● The center held training seminar addressed to university students in order to raise the interest in inventions and foster respect for creative ideas
● The center contains : CD library, computer division , translation
division , Internet and video projectors
● the new task of the center is to use Internet to make the prior-art search which is a great step in promoting the work in the Patent Office.
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II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, distribution and use of primary and secondary sources of patent information
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