CAIRO - HE Dr.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder and chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global
(TAG.Global), has patronized in Cairo the launch of the cooperation agreement
between TAG.Global and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
concerning the ‘image converting to text, content review and e-archiving of the
Egyptian Patent Office files’ project.

The ceremony
was attended by Dr. Mona Yahya, president of the Egyptian Patent Office, Dr.
Hisham Fayed, head of IPO Support at WIPO for the Middle East and North Africa,
and Eng. Suhair Helmy, project manager at the Egyptian Patent Office, and a
host of concerned personalities.

During the
ceremony, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh said: “We are pleased to cooperate with WIPO and
unite our forces to contribute to empowering organizations and individuals
across the world in a mechanism to protect their intellectual properties and
generating new opportunities for growth and development.”

He went on to
add that: “This partnership is considered an important step in the IP
protection field, and it underlines TAG.Global’s dedication to driving
innovation and technological advancement. TAG.Global and WIPO would effectively
share their expertise and resources to archive patents and intellectual assets
in the Egyptian Patent Office.”

For her part, Dr.
Mona Yahya welcomed the attendees and expressed her pride in the cooperation
between ‘Abu-Ghazaleh Global’, WIPO and the Egyptian Patent Office, which would
serve the mission of the Academy in effectively employing technological
capacities, developing national innovations to support small and medium industries
within the framework of the intellectual property right protection.

Dr. Yahya
pointed to the role of the Egyptian Patent Office in protecting IPRs, issuing
patents, encouraging creativity and innovation at the country’s level, noting
that this tri-lateral cooperation serves the effective management of such
innovations.

 The project aims to convert the content of the
Egyptian Patent Office’s files into searchable text files, enabling users to
quickly access documents and related contents in a safe work environment
through a centralized automated system that prevents the loss of exchanged
documents, and protects information security, as the Egyptian Patent Office
maintains the largest collection of patents in Arabic, estimated at about 30
thousand files.

It is worth
mentioning that the project will be carried out by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh for
E-Archiving and Automation System Department, a member firm of TAG.Global and
one the most prominent entities working in the field of electronic archiving.
In fact the Department has previously archived over 250 million documents - in
just three years - for major public and private institutions in Jordan and a
number of Arab countries. This was achieved using an integrated system of
electronically archiving paper documents that was designed to meet the highest
international standards provided in several languages.

It should be noted that the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) is a global forum for intellectual property
services, policies, cooperation and information, founded in 1967 to establish a
balanced and effective international intellectual property system that
encourages creativity and innovation for the benefit of all, and is one of the
self-funding agencies of the United Nations.