Academy of Scientific Research and Technology - Patent Office. Presented by Menna-t-allah M. El-Kotamy.

1. Academy of Scientific Research & Technology
Patent Office
Adel E Ewida
President Of EGYPO

2. Academy of Scientific Research & Technology
Egyptian Patent Office
Doc., Reg., &
Publication Dep.
Administration
Dep.
Tech.
Examination Dep.
Legal Dep. Tech. Information
Dep.
Information Dep.
Computer , library
Monitoring
Dep.
PCT
Dep.
Ministry of High Education &Scientific
Research

3.  Legislations (Intellectual Property Law )
 Administration System for Applying the Law
 Availability of IP information
 Encourage & Supporting Inventors
Egyptian Patent Office Practice

4.  The roots of the Intellectual Property in EGYPT go to 1949 by the
law 132/1949
 The New Law 82/2002 which protect areas,
- Patent , Utility Models
- Layout-Designs for Integrated Circuits
- Undisclosed Information
- Micro-Organism
- Protection of Pharmaceutical Product
- Patent term of Protection 20 years
 Egypt is a member of WIPO since 1975
 Egypt is a member of Paris convention, Strasbourg agreement,
TRIPS agreement, …; and
 PCT Treaty member since June 6, 2003
Legislations (Intellectual property law )

5. EG Patent Office Mandate
• Protection According IP Law 82/2002 and
Int. Treaties (Paris – TRIPS – PCT) For:
Patent
Utility Model
Integrated circuit
Support Innovation and Scientific Research

6. EGPO ISA and IPEA
• The International Patent cooperation union
Assembly at it’s 17 session in October 2009
appointed the Egyptian patent Office as an
International Searching and Preliminary
Examination authority under the PCT
• The Egyptian Patent Office started as ISA and
IPEA on April 2013

7. ‫الدولى‬ ‫والفحص‬ ‫البحث‬
 ‫الدولى‬ ‫البحث‬
EG AT EPO USA Int. search fee
$300 648$ 637$ 520$ Individual
$400 2592$ 2545$ 2080$ Company
 ‫الدولى‬ ‫الفحص‬
EG AT EPO US Exam. Fee
$200 438+17EUR 483+17EUR 190+32$ ‫أقراد‬
$300 1749+163EUR 1930+163EUR 760+221$ ‫شركات‬

8. Egyptian IP Law
Patentability , exception and
limitation

9. Egyptian IP Law Patentability
• Article (1)(TRIPS 27)
Patent Condition:
 New
 Industrial Applicability
 Inventive Step
Product – Process – New use for known Process
Any modification –improvement for invention
 Unity Of invention (Article12)
 Disclosure (best mode Article 13)(TRIPS 29)

10. Egyptian IP Law Exception and limitation
• Article (2)(TRIPS 27)
Exception from Patentability :
 Plant varieties, animal species, or biological methods of producing plants or animal.
Exceptions shall be allowed for the microbiological methods and their products
 Diagnostic methods, treatments, and surgical operations needed for humans and
animals.
 scientific and mathematical principles, discoveries and methods;
 Guides, rules or methods followed to conduct business or perform mental activities
or playing games.
 inventions that may lead to violation of public order or morals.
 Organ, tissues, live cells, natural biotechnolgical substances, nuclear acid and
genome

11. Egyptian IP Law Exception and limitation
• Article (10) Bolar, Scientific Research, Parallel
Importation
• Article (13)
- Traditional Knowledge and genetic resource
- Deposition of micro-organism
• Article (17) Ministries
• Article (22-24) compulsory licensing
• Article (25) Expropriation
• Article (28) invalidation

12. 12
Egyptian Patent office
Organization (for Quality Management)

13. Report of the
UNITED NATIONS
SECRETARY-GENERAL’S
HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON
ACCESS TO MEDICINES
‫العام‬ ‫لالمين‬ ‫التابعة‬ ‫المستوى‬ ‫رفيعة‬ ‫اللجنة‬ ‫تقرير‬
‫االدوية‬ ‫على‬ ‫بالحصول‬ ‫المعنية‬ ‫المتحدة‬ ‫لألمم‬
September 2016

14. Promoting innovation depends on Four factors:
 Legislations (Intellectual Property Law )
 Administration System for Applying the Law
 Availability of IP information
 Encourage & Supporting Inventors
Modernization of Egyptian Patent Office

15. Administration System for Applying the
Law
Development of the Egyptian Patent
Office

16. •The infrastructure;
•The human resources;
•The office procedure.
Development of the Egyptian Patent
Office

17. Egyptian Patent Office , General View Receiving Office

18. Intranet
Win XpWinXp Win Xp
Main Server
Data Base
Server
Archiving
Server
Backup Server

19. •Technical &
Legal
Examiners
•Others
Internet
Router
Firewall
Switch
ISA
Server
WEB Server
Internet Network

20. The database was designed with
cooperation with WIPO
Egyptian Database

21. Database

22. Logon
WIPO Scan ARCHIVING SYSTEM

23. Home Page

24. •The infrastructure;
•The human resources;
•The office procedure.
Development of the Egyptian Patent
Office

25. The Human Resources
• Training
• Re-allocation of staff according Job
Description
• Create new Departments
• Increase the No. of Technical Staff 113
examiner

26. Qualification and Ongoing Training of
Examiners
26
• IP Academy: (WIPO – ASRT)
• (TOT, IP, Development agenda)
• 15 certified trainer (10 from patent office)
• First group provided various training and workshops
in other countries
• 25 under training (6 from Patent office)

27. Human Resource Development Of Egyptian Patent Office
Diploma, Master and PhD
SubjectDiplomaMasterPhD
IP547
Law3
Pharma92
Engineering41
Science22
Arts21
Accounting111
Medicine1
Dentistry1
Agriculture1
Art11
Information11
Counting11
Sub total55349
Total98
Total 98 Plus 13 PhD Part Time Examiner (2 Electric
Eng. 5 Chemistry, 4 Bio-Tech. and 2 Biochemistry)

28. •The infrastructure;
•The human resources;
•The office procedure.
Development of the Egyptian Patent
Office

29. The office procedure.
• Develop Paper Work Flow
• Merge the electronic work flow with the
paper work flow
• Automation the work flow

30. Disk
Application
Scan Transfer bibliographic
data
Egyptian DatabaseArchive system
Examination
Legal
Fee
Searching
decision
Granting
OCR full text
PDF
Transfer
Paper
Doc
Publish
ed
website
Transfer
Searching
E_filin
g
Legal Cases Dbase

31. E-Filling Through Internet

32. Patent Attorney and Focal Applications

33. Application
Egyptian Database
Archive system
Examination
Legal
Fee
Searching
decision
Granting
Publish
ed
website
Transfer
Searching
E_filing &
E_Payment
Legal Cases Dbase
Reply with
application No. &
Filing Data
Transfer the
application full
attachment
Transfer bibliographic
data
Applicant
Can make search &
know application
situation

34. Focal Points
IP Attorneys
Research
center
Universities
Factories
E-government
E-filing , e-payment , e-services
Industrial new
Cities
Regional
center

35. Promoting innovation depends on Four factors:
 Legislations (Intellectual Property Law )
 Administration System for Applying the Law
 Availability of IP information
 Encourage & Supporting Inventors
Modernization of Egyptian Patent Office

36. Availability of IP Information
• Web Site (www.egypo.gov.eg)
• Large Patent application collection on paper,
Microform, CD, and DVD from EPO, USA, DE, AU, PCT,
JP,…etc
• Internet Connection (Online searching using many
database)
• Online access to EPOQUE

37. ‫الفكرية‬ ‫الملكية‬ ‫معلومات‬ ‫إتاحة‬
‫البيانات‬ ‫قواعد‬ ‫توفير‬
• Free database
WIPO” PATENTSCOPE®”, EPOline, Espacenet, , USPTO, JPO, SIPO,
KIPRIS, SurfIP, Free Patents online and Journals.
• Private Database
EPOQUENET, WPI, STN, PatBase, SCIENCEDIRECT, THE PORTAL,
SPRINGERLINK, JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL CHEMISTRY, ACE
PUBLICATION, ASCE PUBLICATION, INFORMA.COM, WILLY
INTERSCIENCE, IEEE, etc
• Technical Examiners (Min. 100)

38. Periodical and non-patent Document
• We are connecting to a very large
Scientific periodical database through
INSTNET
• Egyptian Knowledge Bank

39. Promoting innovation depends on Four
factors:
 Legislations (Intellectual Property Law )
 Administration System for Applying the Law
 Availability of IP information
 Encourage & Supporting Inventors
Modernization of Egyptian Patent
Office

40. • Regional Training Centre
• IPAcademy
• TISC
• TTO Office
• IP Technical consulation Service
• Patent Search
Support Innovation and Scientific
Research

41. Technology Innovation
Commercialization Office
(TICO)
Grant and International
Cooperation Office
(GICO(
Technology Innovation
Support Center
(TISC)
Technology Transfer Office
(TTO)

42. Technology Innovation Commercialization
Office(TICO)
• Key Partners
• Universities
• Research centers
• Research & Development (R&D) centers in industrial
zones
• Production firms and development sectors in both
government and private sectors
• Excellence centers
• NO. of TICO 33 office
• Budget 20 Million EGP
.

43. TICO Offices
The total value of contractAgency
700.000Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade
Industry Council for Technology and Innovation
1
-Kafrelsheikh University2
700.000Ain Shams University3
700.000Arab Academy for Science ,Technology & Maritime Transport4
700.000Suez Canal University5
698860Heliopolis University6
700.000Tanta University7
653410The Agricultural Research Center8
700.000Assiut University9
699776Minia University10
700.000Suez University11
-Alexandria University12
400.000October 6 University13
600.000Mansoura University14
700.000The National Research Centre15
650.000Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology16
700.000The south Valley University17
700.000Helwan University18
560.000Tabbin Institute for Metallurgical Studies (TIMS)19
700.000The American University in Cairo20
640.000Cairo University21
699773Nile University22
700.000Electronics Research Institute23
681.000Zagazig University24
-Syndicate of Scientific Professions - Cairo25
-Syndicate of Scientific Professions – 6th October26
700.000Al-Azhar University27
600.000Housing & Building Research Center (HBRC)28
-Minoufiya University29
-The Industrial Development Authority30
-Chamber of Information Technology and Communications Industry Federation of Egyptian Industries31
700.000The Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI)32
700.000The National Authority for Remote sensing and Space Science (NARSS)33
-October University for Modern Science and Arts34
700.000Industrial Modernization Centre35
700.000The Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA)36
700.000Science and Technology Centre for Excellence37
19650419Total

44. Supporting Master & PHD
project
 SPECIFY FIELD (Priorities of Industry – Solve Technical Problem –
Government Policy)(energy – water – health)
 SME’s
 12 Million EGP – 6.8 Million EGP

45. Egyptian Young Academy of Science (EYAS)
• Mission
Creation of an enabling and encouraging
environment for young scientists in Egypt’s STI
system as the main pillar of a knowledge-based
economy..
Objectives :
To create an enabling environment for young
scientists,
To promote networking among young scientists,
To guide talented young researchers for
worldwide scholarships, grants, and prizes.
To build bridges with Egyptian expat scientists,
To encourage interdisciplinary research teams,
To qualify young researchers to actively
participate in the formulation of national STI
strategies, foresights and roadmaps,
To promote the value of science, innovation,
invention and scientific thinking and culture in the
society.
http://www.bbaw.de/en/agya/concept
http://www.diejungeakademie.de/home
www.globalyoungacademy.net

46. School student
Innovation
“FAB-LAB”

47. National Program for Technological Specialized Incubators
“INTILAC”
• Academy of Scientific Research and
Technology (ASRT) works to bridge
the gap between Academic
Researchers, professionals and
business community by transferring
innovative technological ideas,
• Seed fund up to 150,000 L.E
• Incubation/Acceleration
• Hands-on Training
• Prototype Financing
• Technology Validation
• Technical & Advisory Support
• Networking with Ecosystem
• Seed Funding for Technology
Commercialization

48. EG-KTAs: Egypt Knowledge and
Technology Alliances
• E- KTAs is a cluster of partners working
across the innovation chain, focusing
on the national industrial sector(s)
where the main innovation actors are
positioned in the driving seat for an
effective technology development. In
this context, E- KTAs aims to pool and
network national competences in
universities, research organizations,
NGOs and industry to drive innovation
and technology transfer for solving
national pressing problems.

49. Cairo International Exhibition of
Innovation

50. www.egypo.gov.eg

51. Encourage & Supporting Inventors
• Invention and Innovation Development Agency
• Prizes Department (ASRT)
Invention And Innovation Prize
• Technology Innovation Commercialization Office (TICO)

52. EGPO Important Statistic

53. Patent applications in Egyptian patent office
From 2011 to 2015

54. Granted patents from Egyptian patent office

55. International Patent application (PCT)
Search & Examination Authority
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
‫الطلبات‬ ‫عدد‬ 29 36 42 43 49
0
10
20
30
40
50
60

56. International Cooperation
1- Cooperation with WIPO
• Effective of the MOU for Establishment of a
Regional Training Center for Patent
• Cooperation with WIPO Worldwide Academy
• Support the Egyptian Patent Office
• Cooperation for the Promotion of Technology
Transfer

57. International cooperation
2- Cooperation with EPO
The Egyptian Patent Office agreed with the EPO for
cooperation in the following area:
• Exchange of data
• IP personnel Training
• Promote public awareness of IP

58. International Cooperation
3- Cooperation with the State Intellectual property
Office of China (SIPO) for the purpose of bilateral
cooperation and communication for the
following:
• Exchange views and issues of IP
• IP personal Training
• Exchange views on promoting public awareness of
IP and disseminating IP knowledge
4- Cooperation with JPO ( Mou for PPH)

59. www.egypo.gov.eg
patinfo@egypo.gov.eg
Tel: +202 27921272 +202 27921291
Fax: +202 27921272