Patent
Patent is a deed issued by the state to the inventor whose invention fulfills the necessary conditions to grant a proper patent by which he is able to hold on to the protection, provided by the law to the invention. The protection stipulated by the law to the Patentee, includes the exclusive right to exploit it economically and consequently enables him to gain profits from this exploitation in return for what the revealing of the invention secret has offered to the society.
Some of the International treaties in this regard:- Strasburg Agreement pertinent to the international classification of patents dated 24th March 1971.
- Lisbon Agreement regarding the protection of establishment names and their registration internationally, amended in Stockholm.
- Strasburg Agreement pertinent to the International Authentication of Patents, dated 1971.
1Filing Conditions
-Agency deed legalized by the Egyptian Consulate.
-Assignment deed legalized by the Egyptian Consulate
-Name, address, nationality profession and nature of work of the applicant, (applicants) and inventor/ inventors.
-Specifications in English or French language in order to prepare the Arabic translation. Specification should be divided as follows:
-Status of the previous technique.
-Status defects of the previous technique.
-New elements in the invention (improvements)
-Detailed description
-Invention exploitation manner
-Summary of the invention in English and Arabic (about 100 words).
-One set of the engineering drawings.
-An extract of the assignee company in the Commercial Register or a copy of the incorporation certificate, legalized by the Egyptian Consulate.
-Submitting a legalized copy of the priority document within three (3) months in case of request.
2As for the conditions to obtain a patent from the Egyptian Patents Office, the invention should satisfy the following:
-The invention should be new. The invention shall not be deemed new, wholly or partially, if a patent has been previously issued for the same invention or part thereof, whether inside the A.R.E. or abroad before submitting a request to obtain a patent in Egypt.
-The invention shall not also be deemed new, wholly or partially, if the request to obtain a patent in Egypt has been preceded by another request to obtain a patent for the same invention or part thereof, whether in A.R.E. or abroad.
-It should comprise a creative step.
-The invention shall not be axiomatic to the industry man, specialized in the technology field of the invention.
-Liable for industrial application.
3There are seven (7) steps to obtain a patent from the Egyptian Patents Office, affiliated to the Academy , they are manifested in the following:
-Submitting a request to the Patents Office along with the documents, stipulated by the law No. 82 of 2002, which are available on the Firm’s site.
-Payment of the application fee. Students of all categories are completely exempted, even if they are higher studies students.
-The request shall be given a filing number and date.
-The Law and Executive Regulation give a grace period to complete some documents.
-A formal check of the requests shall be performed within six (6) months from the submission date.
-Requests shall be transferred to the technical check in accordance with their precedence of submission.
-In case of technical acceptance of the request, the acceptance shall be published and if there is no objection, the patent shall be granted.
