MUSCAT: The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion (MoCIIP) has urged business owners to register their trademarks with the National Intellectual Property Office in order to safeguard their brands.
“The marketing efforts made by the business owner to create a reputation for a trademark , will be resulted in promoting it where it will become a well-known trademark among consumers,” MOCIIP said.
More than 6,315 applications have been filed with the National Intellectual Property Office since the beginning of January till the end of July 2021.
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Asia bint Ismail Al-Ajmiya, a trademark researcher at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion, stated “All owners of trademarks are requested to register their trademarks in the National Intellectual Property Office at the MoCIIP to ensure that others do not register the particular trademarks, while this call also applies to the other kinds of intellectual property”
Asia Al-Ajamiya added: “The intellectual property is defined as a set of rights that protect human thoughts and creativity, and it includes industrial rights, patents, trademarks, industrial models, moral rights , copyright and related rights. The Intellectual property is also a right for every human being who has an idea to own it and document it in all areas of intellectual property”
