Training Courses on IT Service Management

ITIL Foundation – Training Courses aimed to provide courses on end-to-end operating models and governance frameworks for the planning, implementation and continual improvement of tech-enabled products and services, while monitoring and controlling the quality of the delivered products and services, based on Best Practices in IT service management from both a business and a customer perspective.

DB and SQL Training Courses

Training courses on the use of databases as an organized collection of structured information, that can be easily accessed, managed, modified, updated, controlled, and organized and the use of structured query language (SQL) for writing and querying data.

Review of Trademark and Industrial Design Legislation

The document presents an overview of the Trademark legislation that governs in Egypt the use of signs capable of exclusively identifying the goods or services of one enterprise from those of another, and more specifically their source or origin (through, for example a name, word or phrase, logo and symbol, design or image) and of Industrial Design related legislation protecting in Egypt ornamental visual features (including dimensional features such as shape, pattern lines or colours), applied to a finished article.

Recommendations on the development of the Geographical Indications System

The document identifies the four geographical regions relevant to potential GIs and, as examples, some of the agricultural products with top potentialities for GI registration and recommended geographical names and compares the advantages and challenges between the two means of protection of agricultural products in Egypt, that is Trademarks and related individual marketing versus Certification and Geographical Indications with related shared marks and joint marketing. The document provides insights for potential verification processes at the administrative level aimed at ensuring the protection of goods originating from a territory, regional or locality and further recommendations aiming at the enhancement of the current GI system in Egypt.

Shared Marks Characteristics and Egyptian Food on Slow Food Art of Taste

The Ark of Taste is an international catalogue of endangered heritage foods which is maintained by the global Slow Food movement. The Ark is designed to preserve at-risk foods that are sustainably produced, unique in taste, and part of a distinct ecoregion. The Ark of Taste travels the world collecting small-scale quality productions that belong to the cultures, history and traditions of the entire planet: an extraordinary heritage of fruits, vegetables, animal breeds, cheeses, bread, sweets and cured meats. See also RAWI Egypt’s Heritage Review https://rawi-magazine.com/articles/endangered-foods/

Technical Fiches for potential GIs products of Egypt are presented

• Fiche 1: Dates of Siwa desert oasis
• Fiche 2: Barki Sheep of Matrouh
• Fiche 3: Olivie Oil of Siwa desert oasis
• Fiche 4: Olive Oil of Mont Sinai and Saint Katherine

GI would contribute in those regions to improving the socio-economic situation of the population and especially of vulnerable groups and minorities while improving their income, supporting the registration of new unified brands based on joint/regional agro-food products, protecting the Egyptian agricultural heritage, conservation and promotion of local varieties of plants/breedings and promoting traditional know-how.

Protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) in Egypt

The document presents the definition of GI and its relevance to Egypt, examples of GIs and prospects for protection of GIs in Egypt and further recommendations that include: (i) the development of a strong legal protection and domestic GI system, drafting ad-hoc lays for GIs effective protection at national level, identification of most appropriate modes of protection for GIs in Egypt, to identify and select the most suitable verification process, to declare some of the targeted products as public goods and register them under GIs or collective trademarks, to develop a code of practices for selected agricultural GIs products, or to reinforce organisational and institutional structures/associations among producers.

Guidelines for Trademarks’ and Industrial Designs’ Applications in Egypt

Indications on how to register and protect trademarks / industrial designs in Egypt through the Trademarks and Industrial Designs Office (TIDO), Internal Trade Development Authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry (http://www.itda.gov.eg).

Guidelines on how to obtain Trademark Protection through the Madrid System

The International Route of Trademark Protection under the Madrid system can be followed by those who would like to use their national trademark application in order to expand their protection internationally.

Guidelines on how to obtain Design Protection through the Hague System

Indications on the International Route of Design Protection under the Hague system can be followed by those who would like to obtain protection in countries and intergovernmental organizations that are members of the Hague Union through a single international application filed with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Enforcement Tool Kit for SMEs in terms of IP Protection

The documents showcase why IP is an asset on the company accounts as well as a source of information and knowledge, also considered as a “key negotiating tool” or a “deal-maker” when looking for investment and funding and reinforcing SMEs position on the market while protecting their creations from their competitors.

How to Use International Data Bases on IP

How to Use International Data Bases on IP on public information about international applications and registrations and registered trademarks worldwide:

• WIPO Gazette of International Marks
• Madrid Monitor
• Extracts from the International register
• Global Brand Database