Analyses the status quo of IP conventions in the MENA region and takes a closer look at the status quo of 12 prime conventions (in chronological order), such as the most recent ones – TRIPS Agreement (1996) and the Patent Law Treaty (2000). It was only during the last decades of the Ottoman’s reign that IP became an economically prominent factor in international business and politics. Their first trademark law was enacted in 1871, the patent law in 1879, and the copyright act in 1910. The first and foremost multilateral IP treaty, the Paris Convention, dates to 1883. All of these were applicable in (parts of) today’s Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine (i.e. Gaza, West Bank), Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Tunisia.
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