Abu-Ghazaleh Chairs the Annual Meetings of AIPMAS and LES-AC
22-Dec-2019
AMMAN - HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founderand chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global), chaired the annualextraordinary meetings of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly of theArab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society (AIPMAS) and theLicensing Executives Society-Arab Countries (LES-AC).
During the meeting, Dr. Abu-Ghazalehwelcomed the Board members who represent a host of institutions in the Arabcountries and underlined the need to achieve the objectives of the twoSocieties.
He called on AIPMAS and LES-AC to expand theiractivities by offering additional training courses to institutions in the Arabregion suggesting the possibility of contracting with educational and traininginstitutes to hold workshops at schools and universities, to raise awareness on the importance of protectingIntellectual Property Rights, in view of the growing size of inventions andinnovations in the Age of Knowledge.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh also called forconducting various training courses on the mechanisms of transforminginnovation into marketable products (Commercialization of Inventions) and theIPRs in the era of knowledge and Industrial Revolution.
For her part, Ms. Majd Khaddash, ASIP andLES-AC manager, briefed the attendees on the activities conducted by the twoSocieties 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 thetraining courses conducted by ASIP and LES-AC mainly the E-Crimes TrainingCourse, Substantive Examination of Trademarks, a specialized course ontrademarks 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 IPRsand 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 theprevious agenda and the reading of the auditors' report (Al Faysal forAuditing) by the auditor for the fiscal year that ended on 31/12/2018 whichresulted in the re-assignment of that auditor for the next year for the twoSocieties.