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What is a Patent?

A patent is an intellectual property right that guarantees the legal protection of your technological innovations. Under the patent, you can prevent others from using your invention for commercial purposes for up to 20 years. You have an exclusive right to decide who allows you to produce, sell or import your invention in the countries in which you own a valid patent. You can also trade your patent, for example, by selling or licensing your invention to others.

What is invention?

What conditions must be met in an invention to obtain patent protection?

The invention shall be protected by patent if the following conditions are met:

First, it must be new

The invention is new if it is not in the previous technical state.

The state of the above technology shall include all that has been announced to the public in the Kingdom of Bahrain or abroad by written or oral description or by use or by any other means by which the knowledge of the contents of the invention is realized before the date of filing the patent application.

The novelty clause in the invention is first realized: that the invention is new in itself, which no one has ever reached, and secondly is closely related to confidentiality. Was not disclosed to the public before applying for a patent to protect it.

It is essential that the owner of the invention comply with confidentiality and keep his invention secret and not announce it until he has submitted a request to the competent authorities to obtain a patent to protect his invention and once the application is filed, he is able to disclose his invention.

If the invention is disclosed to the public in an arbitrary or illegal manner, this infringement does not void the confidentiality of the invention, and the owner of the invention reserves the right to submit a patent application for his invention.

Second: involves a creative step

An invention shall be deemed to be an inventive step if it is not obvious to the ordinary professional who is familiar with the state of the art related to the subject matter of the invention.

In other words, the invention must be the result of an inventive activity undertaken by the inventor to reach a conclusion that no other person, “the man of the ordinary profession”, has any knowledge of the invention to reach the same invention in an intuitive manner without the need for any creative activity.

Third: Industrial Applicable

The invention shall be industrially applicable if it can be applied in agriculture, fishing, services, handicrafts or any kind of industry in the broadest sense.

Whether the invention relates to new industrial products imported or produced domestically or by means of manufacture or to a new application of known industrial methods, modification, improvement or addition to an invention that has already been granted a patent.

Fourth: It is not included in the inventions excluded by law

Under the Bahraini law, the invention of a patent in the Kingdom of Bahrain can not be protected if the commercial exploitation of this invention in the Kingdom of Bahrain violates public order or morals, violates the protection of life, human or animal health, plants or serious damage to the environment.

Inventions under the Patent Protection Act of the Kingdom of Bahrain can not be protected by:

– Scientific discoveries, theories and methods

– Plants and animals – except microorganisms and biologically based methods for plant and animal production

– Methods of diagnosis, treatment and surgery for the treatment of humans or animals, except for the products used in any of these methods.