Applications for Trademarks, Patents in Oman Stand reached 14,235 in 2023

Applications for Trademarks, Patents and copyright in Oman reached 14,235 in 2023

Muscat: The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion stated that the number of applications for “national” and “international” trademarks, “national” and “international” patents, and copyright and designs during the year 2023 amounted to 14,234 applications, registered. A growth of 12.59 percent compared to 12,642 applications registered during the year 2022.

Statistics issued by the National Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment Promotion showed that the applications submitted during the past year represented the registration of 13,196,000 applications for national and international trademarks, compared to 11,744,000 applications in the year 2022, and the registration of 874 applications for national patents. And international, compared to 737 applications registered in the year 2022, and 143 applications registered for copyright last year, compared to 144 applications in the year 2022, and 21 applications registered for industrial designs, compared to 17 applications registered in 2022.

Nidaa Bint Yaqoub Al Tamimiya, Head of the Patents and Industrial Designs Department at the National Intellectual Property Office, explained that the importance of intellectual property comes in many areas, as it enters into all areas of the lives of individuals and countries, especially in the economy and investment sector and encouraging fair competition, noting that many of these investments contain One or more forms of intellectual property rights as an effective business enabler.

She demonstrated that intellectual property enables business owners, whether large companies, small and medium-sized companies, or individuals, to ensure guaranteed competitive advantages, generate sources of income, and an opportunity for the company to grow, maintain its market position, reduce tax liability, form a source of competitive intelligence, and facilitate access to financing.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment Promotion, represented by the National Intellectual Property Office, invites innovators to submit their applications for registration with the Ministry’s Intellectual Property Department and to participate in national and international exhibitions, which is considered a mini market in which the inventor can market his innovation and get to know the companies that will support those innovations.