Abu-Ghazaleh Chairs the Annual Meetings of AIPMAS and LES-AC
22-Dec-2019
AMMAN - HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder
and chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global), chaired the annual
extraordinary meetings of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly of the
Arab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society (AIPMAS) and the
Licensing Executives Society-Arab Countries (LES-AC).
During the meeting, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh
welcomed the Board members who represent a host of institutions in the Arab
countries and underlined the need to achieve the objectives of the two
Societies.
He called on AIPMAS and LES-AC to expand their
activities by offering additional training courses to institutions in the Arab
region suggesting the possibility of contracting with educational and training
institutes to hold workshops at schools and universities, to raise awareness on the importance of protecting
Intellectual Property Rights, in view of the growing size of inventions and
innovations in the Age of Knowledge.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh also called for
conducting various training courses on the mechanisms of transforming
innovation into marketable products (Commercialization of Inventions) and the
IPRs in the era of knowledge and Industrial Revolution.
For her part, Ms. Majd Khaddash, ASIP and
LES-AC manager, briefed the attendees on the activities conducted by the two
Societies during the year most importantly workshops on “Famous Trademarks”,
“Technology Transfer in Jordan” and “Supporting Innovation in IP and Patents”
Furthermore, Khaddash listed some of the
training courses conducted by ASIP and LES-AC mainly the E-Crimes Training
Course, Substantive Examination of Trademarks, a specialized course on
trademarks that was held for cadres of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals.
She pointed out that the Societies will hold a course on the protection of IPRs
and trademarks for the staff of Hayel Saeed Anam Group of Companies - Yemen.
It is worth mentioning that the number of AIPMAS members is 297,
according to the 2019 annual report of the Society; 27 of them are new members.
Additionally, the meeting adopted the
previous agenda and the reading of the auditors' report (Al Faysal for
Auditing) by the auditor for the fiscal year that ended on 31/12/2018 which
resulted in the re-assignment of that auditor for the next year for the two
Societies.