LEGAL PROTECTION FOR INDUSTRIAL INVENTIONS IN THE UNIFIED PATENT LAW OF THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COUNTRIES

In the past years, the world witnessed great interest in intellectual and industrial property, due to the huge technological and industrial development revolution that the world witnessed, and the great and developing countries raced to own it. This led to the issuance of international agreements regulating intellectual and industrial property in its various forms, especially inventions With the issuance of Arab national legislation regulating rules that protect inventions, Therefore, the research article aimed to identify the rules of legal protection for industrial inventions in the unified law of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. By following the comparative analytical descriptive approach, the study reached several results, the most important of which is the existence of legal rules regulating inventions and protecting the patent owner. The most important recommendations were the need to encourage the authoring and publishing of legal literature concerned with industrial property.