Draft Intellectual Property Law has been prepared in Egypt and most likely will come into force before the end of this year. Protection of Intellectual Property rights Law in Egypt consists mainly of four sections covers all aspects of Intellectual property. This new law has entered new subject matter which was never protected in Egypt and entered so many amendments of the existing I. P. Laws.
Section One covers Patents, Layout of Integrated Circuits and protection of undisclosed information.
Patent Of Inventions
Several changes as well as new features have been entered over the existing patent law includes:
1 - Patent of invention shall be granted to any new, industrially applicable invention having inventive step. This means that new subject matter shall be patentable including in particular pharmaceutical compounds, agricultural chemicals, micro-organisms, microbiological processes used to produce plants or animals.
