Officials from the Bahraini Ministry of Trade met with a US Trade delegation last month and requested that Bahrain’s name be removed from the US Intellectual Property Watch List.
Mr. Ali Salah Al-Saleh, Minister of Trade, discussed with the US delegation, under the chairmanship of Mr. Yan Kalesky, the procedures which Bahrain follows in the field of intellectual property, and in particular those concerning the protection of Industrial Property Rights. Due to its strict adherence to the TRIPs agreement and other IP conventions to which it is a signatory, Bahrain feels it deserves to be removed from the US Watch List.