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Our SME exhibition and panel discussions are the International Conference on Mediation
a testimony of the creativity Qatar is endorsing and Arbitration on the Role of IP in Fostering
and the strides it is taking to instate intellectual Economic Growth: Analyzing the Link Between
property as a propelling force towards its Protected IP Rights and FDI Inflows held in Doha
national objective. We do support all kinds of last June was dedicated to discussing the legal
creative ideas and this is simply a sample of them. groundwork to designate IP as the catalyst in
We hope that in the foreseeable future, more our transformative strategy. The participation of
aspiring entrepreneurs will feel emboldened to diverse stakeholders like the Qatar International
start a venture knowing fully well that the State Court, the Qatar Science and Technology Park,
will equip them will all tools necessary to protect various Qatar based law firms, and the Ministry
their intellectual property and their business. of Commerce and Industry is an example of the
cross pollination of expertise we are targeting.
Qatar has developed quite an ironclad
partnership with World Intellectual Property How would Qatar joining the Madrid Protocol
Organization throughout the years, which affect its intellectual property, particularly in
is quite evident through the different joint protecting traditional knowledge, and what
programs launched between WIPO and various does this mean for Qatar’s cultural identity and
Qatari institutions. What is the significance of innovation in a globalized world?
WIPO’s partnership for Qatar? This answer to this question has two parts.
The partnership we have with the World First, Qatar’s accession to the Madrid Protocol
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) enhances the country’s ability to protect
is strategically integral to our country’s long- traditional trademarks, our heritage, and
term transition to a knowledge-based economy our innovative pursuit. The state has been
conducive to the attraction of Foreign Direct heavily involved in promoting its R&D by
Investment (FDI). IP is indispensable as we investing international research projects
implement digitalization in all spheres. We and innovations in areas such as healthcare,
decided that the best course of action to facilitate energy, and IT. We are also involved in AI
this transition would be to harness WIPO’s research with a focus on machine learning,
excellent capacity building programs to a variety data science, and computational biology. All
of stakeholders in all practices, with a concerted these initiatives fall under the umbrella of our
effort and objective to proliferate IP knowledge national objective, which is to become a hub
at the mitochondrial level of our society. For of discovery. The Madrid Protocol will help
instance, we have signed MoU’s in the past with us protect inventors’ trademarks in multiple
WIPO such as the one signed with Hamad Bin international markets.
Khalifa University in 2022 to develop human
resources capacity in IP law through teaching Secondly, Qatar’s history is rich and goes back
and practical skills development in J.D, LL. And over a millennium, long before the arrival of
S.J.D degree programs. Recently, another MoU Islam in the Arabian Peninsula. It is essential that
th
has been signed on October 7 between WIPO the knowledge that derives from these customs
and the Qatar International Court and Dispute and traditions is preserved and immortalized
Resolution Centre to settle IP disputes through for ourselves and for the coming generations.
Mediation and Arbitration and to provide As it is also important for these generations to
training programs to mediators and arbitrators. know who they are and where they come from
We hope to expand IP training to diplomats in and that any work they produce is protected and
the foreseeable future and to sign more MoUs properly accredited. This accession is therefore
with other Qatari institutions. a symbol of Qatar’s commitment to cultural
sovereignty, preserving what makes us unique
Additionally, this partnership is instrumental in while contributing to the collective knowledge
developing the legal foundation for alternative and creativity of the world. We hope that
dispute resolution (ADR) in conjunction this move will incite all our youth to be more
to mediation and arbitration which are entrepreneurial and express their creativity
correlative to IP knowledge. In the same vein, freely.

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