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
acted as a repository. There was no substantive examination
and grant of a patent in Kuwait.
The Kuwaiti Patent Office has now started substantive
examination of patent applications. Two patents were granted in
January 2021, and published in the Official Gazette no. 1518 of
year 67 issued on January 17, 2021. The acceptance decisions for
the two granted patents were published in the Arabic version of the
said Gazette,
