IP Search Engine
This service enables our users to find news items and information concerning any targeted IP topic or event. The Advanced Search constitutes an additional assistance to find what they are looking for from the News Agency’s archive.
Registration of Trademarks, Patents, Designs and Copyrights
We cover all of our clients’ Intellectual Property needs from registration, prosecution, maintenance, licensing and counseling related to trademarks, patents, copyrights and industrial designs and models in the Arab countries and in the rest of the world through our long-established global network of associates.
Patent Drafting
This includes drafting patents’ claims, full description of the invention and drawings in compliance with the different patent laws in the world.
Patent Validation System
We will not spare any effort to accelerate the examination procedures at the national patent offices; therefore we offer our clients:
- Search reports analysis:
To find any granted patents for the desired applications that would be valid at the national patent offices.
- Amendment of claims:
To make the application confirming to the national patent laws.
- Follow-up on examination process:
The “validation process” will be completed by issuing a patent
Patent Infringement Follow-up
Market watch is actively and continuously conducted to alert us of any kind of infringement, thus guaranteeing maximum protection for your patents.
Because pharmaceutical and biotechnology patents are at an extremely high risk of infringement, AGIP has created a new service for this sector which consists of tracking and following up any infringement related to a patent or data protection with the local health authorities and patent offices.
IP Portfolio Management
AGIP.net, an online state-of-the-art intellectual Property Portfolio Management System, allows clients to keep track of their portfolios and provides accurate, real-time 24-hour access to the relevant information they need. Clients are able to track and manage the progress of their applications in all countries where AGIP is the agent.
Clients are also able to send online instructions concerning all AGIP services covering trademarks, patents, industrial designs, copyrights and domain names. Each main service includes the following: search, renewal, change of name, change of address, recording a license, recording an assignment, recording a merger and others.
Moreover, AGIP.net enables clients to check their outstanding and/or settled invoices in addition to obtaining account statements.
Search for Published Patents
Through its Intellectual Property Published Registrations (IPPR) Data Center, AGIP conducts a comprehensive search for patents published in the Official Gazettes and National Patent Office websites in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
This search aims to determine patents’ availability for use and registration, as well as it evaluates whether such patents conflict with previously existing rights owned by third parties.
Using a number of criteria such as title, abstract, names (inventor/ applicant), numbers and dates (publication/ application/ priority) and patent families, the search covers pre-filing search, bibliographic search, English equivalent patent search, English related patent documents search and equivalent patent family search.
After conducting the search, clients will be provided with a full detailed search report indicating any similar or matching patents of theirs within less than 24 hours.
The search report incorporates the following information: bibliographic data including the abstract; legal status including the effective date, the expiry date of the right and transactions; original document of the patent of interest, as well as translation of claims (the last two are only applicable in Saudi Arabia).
Licensing and Franchising
Offered in cooperation with Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Legal, such services include drafting licensing and franchising agreements, along with providing legal consultations on the compatibility of such agreements with Arab laws, mediation and litigation.