Syria's Removal of Boycott Declaration From Patent
Applications is Meaningless. Ag-Ip-News, a news arm of an
accounting conglomerate in the Arab world,
reported
that Syria will no longer require first time patent applicants to submit a
declaration of compliance with the Arab boycott of Israel.
The fact is that Syrian patents exclude protection
of intellectual property from Israel anyhow, not to mention the fact that
Israeli goods are forbidden in Syria anyhow, so any requirement for a
declaration of compliance with the Arab boycott of Israel is meaningless
anyhow.
Syria hosts the Central Boycott Office, the
arm of the Arab League which enforces the Arab boycott of Israel. In fact, the
Arab League was created specifically to run the Arab boycott of Israel, which
was created as a boycott of Jewish interests in the region in 1921, which is 27
years before Israel was created.
Regardless, there
no date for enacting the new rule was established, so not only was this new
rule meaningless, it is essentially non-existent. What this does show, however,
is that the Central Boycott Office is busy and probably expects to get busier,
as evidenced by plans to remove the enforcement of meaningless declarations
that don't enhance their boycott. In other words, the CBO is being streamlined,
which should raise alarm bells for international commerce. |
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