To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. 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