Bahrain's full name is "The Kingdom of Bahrain". It is still a country with a hereditary monarchy. Since the promulgation of the new constitution in 2002, the monarchy has been fixed as a national system, and a bicameral parliament has been established to strengthen judicial independence and implement the separation of powers. Since the 1930s, Bahrain has become the first country in the Gulf region to discover and exploit oil. The oil and petrochemical industry and aluminum smelting are its pillar industries. The state-owned aluminum smelter Bahrain Aluminum Company (ALBA) is now the largest single entity in the world. Aluminum smelter. Under the increasingly enlightened and open economic policy, Bahrain has focused on developing industries such as finance, trade, tourism and exhibitions in order to get rid of its dependence on the oil industry. It has now become one of the financial centers in the Gulf region. It has been cited in the United States Heritage Fund and the Wall Street Journal In the Economic Freedom Index, Bahrain ranks 12th in the world. In the Global Financial Center Index published by the Financial Center of the City of London, Bahrain is also rated as the fastest growing economic center in the world. Bahrain has become the headquarters of many multinational companies. Its tourism service industry is particularly developed, especially attracting neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There are 10 million people entering the country from the Saudi-Bahrain Bridge every year, while the Kingdom of Bahrain has a population of only 1.5 million, including foreigners. Another 55%.
In 1995, Bahrain joined the WTO. In 2021, Israel and Bahrain began to implement a free trade agreement and formed a sustainable economic development industrial partnership with the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan. The main trading partners of the Kingdom of Bahrain are the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, South Korea and India, etc. In 2018, China and Bahrain signed a "Belt and Road" cooperation agreement, and became Bahrain's largest source of imports from 2012 to 2020. In 2022, the bilateral trade volume between China and Bahrain reached US$2.02 billion, and my country exported a large number of mechanical and electrical products to Bahrain. , high-tech products, clothing, etc., while Bahrain exports organic chemicals, iron ore, etc. to China. In 2021, as the first country in the Middle East to encourage cloud first, Tencent Cloud established a data center in Bahrain.
Introduction to Bahrain Patent System
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1. Language for filing patent application in Bahrain:
- Arabic/English
2. Types of patent protection:
- Inventions, utility models, designs
3. Ways for Chinese applicants to apply for patents in Bahrain:
- Paris Convention, PCT international application into Bahrain, GCC application
4. Review unit:
- Ministry of Industry and Commerce, BIPO, an agency under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism of Bahrain
5. Submit application:
- electronic submission
6. Review process:
- After receiving the patent application, the Bahrain Industrial Property Office will conduct a preliminary review of the submitted application form and patent specification. The patent applicant has four months to make modifications and additions. A preliminary review report will be issued within 60 days of the preliminary review, and the patent applicant has 30 days to appeal the report and submit supplementary materials. Since 2018, the Bahrain Industrial Property Office has conducted a substantive review of patent applications and issued a final review report. Patent applications that pass the actual review will eventually be issued a patent certificate.
Features of Bahraini patents
1. Bahraini patent application documents, including description, claims, power of attorney, priority text, etc., must be submitted in Arabic translation and must be notarized and certified;
2. Neither the Bahrain priority period nor the period for entering the national phase of the PCT international application can be restored.
Friendliness towards Chinese applicants:
★★
The value of patent rights:
★★
Completeness of rights protection mechanism:
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