The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in cooperation with Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development, organized a workshop for the students of Qatar Academy Doha, one of Qatar Foundation’s schools, about the concepts of intellectual property rights protection.

This activity comes in line with the Ministry’s keenness to enhance intellectual property rights’ protection, disseminate its concepts amongst the public and achieve the desired outcomes.

The workshop addressed several topics, including the definition of intellectual property, the general concepts of trademarks, registering trademarks, how to differentiate between original and counterfeit products, an introduction about patents, registering patents electronically, in addition to introducing copyrights, related rights, artificial intelligence and the laws regulating intellectual property.