Mr. Nadeem Akash, the Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, inaugurated the Regional Seminar on Intellectual Property Protection and Patent Marketing in Aleppo. The seminar was held by the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade's Intellectual Property Protection Department and the Syrian Inventors Association in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Foremost among the participants were Syrian Officials, members of the Syrian Inventors Association, interested people from the private sector and representatives from the WIPO and Arab and foreign governments.
Mr. Valadimer Yousefov, the Director of WIPO Basic Services and Innovation Encouragement Department, pointed out the qualitative and quantitative presence in the seminar shows the extent of care which the Syrian Government gives to local inventors. The Deputy Chief of the Syrian Inventors Association, Mr. Saleh Askar, stated in his speech that a country's development is measured by the strength of its industrial economy to which inventors are the cornerstone.