{"id":2122,"date":"2016-12-30T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2016-12-30T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:15:34","slug":"hamdan-innovation-incubator-signs-mou-protect-members-patents-intellectual-property-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2016\/12\/30\/hamdan-innovation-incubator-signs-mou-protect-members-patents-intellectual-property-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamdan Innovation Incubator signs MoU to protect members\u2019 patents, intellectual property rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamdan Innovation Incubator, an initiative of Dubai SME, the agency mandated to foster the small and medium enterprise sector, has signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, with United Trademark and Patent Services to protect the patents and intellectual property rights of entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the two organisations will cooperate in promoting a culture of innovation and supporting SMEs.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamdan Innovation Incubator will provide member entrepreneurs with relevant solutions and programmes in cooperation with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The company has lawyers and administrative staff specialised in intellectual property rights, patents, industrial models and trademarks.<\/p>\n<p>The MoU was signed by Saeed Al Marri, Deputy CEO of Dubai SME, and Maria Farouq Irfan Khan, the executive director of United Trademark and Patent Services.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdan Innovation Incubator seeks to encourage citizens to come up with local creative inventions, and the new co-operation will help achieve Dubai\u2019s strategy for supporting SMEs and empowering nascent businesses to turn prototypes of their inventions into businesses, Al Marri said.<\/p>\n<p>Through co-operation with the Hamdan Innovation Incubator, the company seeks to expand its presence in Dubai and increase clientele, Khan noted.\u2014WAM<\/p>\n<p>Image: hi2.ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamdan Innovation Incubator, an initiative of Dubai SME, the agency mandated to foster the small and medium enterprise sector, has signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, with United Trademark and Patent Services to protect the patents and intellectual property rights of entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,47,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}