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| Monday, June 23, 2008 |
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| Syria's Removal of
Boycott Declaration From Patent Applications is Meaningless. |
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The Arab boycott of Israel may be gearing up for
a new push
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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