Through its Intellectual Property Published Registrations (IPPR) Data Center, AGIP conducts a comprehensive search for patents published in the Official Gazettes and National Patent Office websites in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Patent Office, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
This search aims at determining patent availability for use and registration, as well as evaluating whether such patents conflict with previously existing rights owned by third parties.
Using a number of criteria such as title, abstract, names (inventor/ applicant), numbers and dates (publication/ application/ priority) and patent families, the search covers prefiling search, bibliographic search, English equivalent patent search, English related patent documents search and equivalent patent family search.
Within 24 hours upon completion of the search , clients are provided with a full detailed search report indicating any patents similar or matching to theirs.
The search report incorporates the following information: bibliographic data including the abstract; legal status including the effective date, the expiry date of the right and transactions; original document of the patent of interest, as well as translation of claims (the last two are only available in Saudi Arabia).