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The Supreme Council of the GCC held its annual meeting on 5
January 2021 and issued its decision that the GCC Patent Office
will no longer accept any new patent applications as of 6 January
2021. Thus discontinuing GCC Patent System.
As a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), protection of
patents in Kuwait could only be obtained through the GCC Patent
Office for many years. Although a national system for filing of
patents was provided, however, no input from the Kuwaiti Patent
Office was provided after filing the national application as it
Recently, I had the privilege of participating in a couple of virtual conferences as a panelist on issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP).