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IP/N/1/SAU/P/1  
 
15 December 2022  
(22-9331)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA : THE EXECUTIVE REGULATIONS OF THE PATENT LAW  
OF THE COOPERATION COUNCIL FOR THE ARAB STATES OF THE GULF  
Notifying Member  KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title The Executive Regulations of the Patent Law of the Cooperation Council for 
the Arab States of the Gulf  
Subject matter  Patents (including plant variety protection)  
Nature of 
notification  [  ] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[X] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2022/IP/SAU/22_8571_00_x.pdf  
Notification status  [X] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  Not applicable  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
In the implementation of the decision of the Supreme Council of the Cooperation Council for the 
Arab States of the Gulf at its forty -first session held on January 5, 2021, to approve the amendment 
of the Patent Law of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf and based on the thirty -
second article of the aforementioned law which states the following: The Commercial Cooperation 
Committee issues the executive regulations. For this law, the Commercial Cooperation Committee, 
at its sixtieth meeting held on June 27, 2021, approved the executive regulations for the amendment 
of the Patent Law of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text Arabic  
Entry into force  1 February 2022  
Other date    IP/N/1/SAU/11 • IP/N/1/SAU/P/1  
 
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Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  30 September 2022  
Other information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Patent Office at the Secretariat General for Cooperation Council  
PO Box 11333 340 227  
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  
 
Phone:  00966112551516  
E-mail: aalhumaidi@gccsg.org   
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.  