Brief About SAIP

<p>Her Excellency, Shihana Alazzaz, is appointed by a Royal Order issued by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as an advisor at the Royal Court. In addition, Her Excellency is appointed by a High Order issued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as the chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.<br />
Before that, Her Excellency was appointed by a Royal Order issued by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, the supreme council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where she served from 2022 until 2024 marking a substantial transformation and notable development at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers (“GSCM”) which she headed, including institutionalizing its operations, setting policies, processes, procedures, and guidelines, designing its operating model, digitizing its affairs and transactions, facilitating and accelerating realization, ensuring business continuity, building and transferring know-how and other achievements which reflected positively on GSCM, its role, ease of affairs and elevating its work environment.<br />
Her Excellency has many years of practical experience during which she held several positions at the Public Investment Fund (“PIF”), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from 2017 until 2022 starting as the Head of Transactions of its Legal Affairs Department and stepped up to become the General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Directors of PIF as well as serving on several of its executive committees as well as chairing and being a member of the boards and committees of several PIF’s portfolio companies. Before that, she worked at several international law firms from 2008 until 2017, providing legal advice and leading transactions, deals, dispute resolution, settlements, and other legal work in various sectors.<br />
Her Excellency holds a bachelor of law (with honors) from the University of Durham in England and received training at several universities and institutes including INSEAD in France, IMD in Switzerland, and Bocconi University in Italy. She was admitted as an Attorney at Law by the New York State Supreme Court and licensed by the Ministry of Justice in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&nbsp;<br />
Throughout Her Excellency’s career, she has been awarded and recognized by several international and local institutes including being chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, being recognized among the top 100 most powerful businesswomen in the Middle East by Forbes, winning the Women in Business Law Award by the International Financial Law Review as well as being named by Finance Monthly as the “Deal Maker”.&nbsp;<br />
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Shihana Saleh Alazzaz

Chairwoman of Board of Directors

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Eng. Osama Al-Zamil

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Eng. Haitham Abdulrahman AlOhali

Hamed Mohammed Fayez

Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed AlSwailem

Deemah AlYahya

Abdulrahman Alsamari

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Develop the National Strategy for Intellectual Property.

Raise awareness about the importance of intellectual property and protect its rights.

Express opinion on the international agreements related to intellectual property rights.

Suggesting rules and regulations related to intellectual property rights.

Strengthen the use of intellectual property to build an advanced knowledge-based economy.al bodies.

Establish information bases in the SAIP field of work, and exchange information with local, regional and international bodies.

Register intellectual property rights, grant and enforce their protection documents

License the activities related to the SAIP field of work.

Represent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in international and regional organizations related to intellectual property rights, and defend its interests.

Provide and make available to the public the intellectual property rights-related information.

Follow up the implementation of obligations resulting from the Kingdom's accession to international intellectual property agreements.

To achieve its objectives, the SAIP shall have the following tasks and functions: 

Tasks & Functions

We Strive to Maximize the Value of IP and Excel in Service Delivery by Cooperation With Our Partners to Drive The National Economy.


Mission

<p>The Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property aims to regulate, support, develop, sponsor, protect, enforce and upgrade the fields of intellectual property in the Kingdom in accordance with international best practices, and it is organizationally linked to the Prime Minister.</p>


Attain Excellence in IP Operations 

Improve IP Respect 

Empower IP

Enhance Global IP Influence 

Orchestrate and Improve Organizational Excellence 

To Enable a vibrant IP Ecosystem Locally and Globally

Strategic Pillars 

Vision

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<p>Nuno Pires de Carvalho joined Licks Attorneys as a partner, in 2016, to strengthen the firm’s IP, Policy Making and Competition practices. Before joining Licks Attorneys, he was the Director of the Intellectual Property and Competition Policy Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, Switzerland. In his16-year tenure at WIPO’s International Bureau, he acted in three main areas: protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, legislative assistance to a significant number of developing countries as regards the implementation of TRIPS-related obligations in the field of industrial property as well as to implement their obligations under multilateral, and free trade agreements and the interface between intellectual property and competition law and policy.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">In addition, Mr.Carvalho was a Counselor with the Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, for three years (1996-1999). In that capacity, he assisted the TRIPS Council and helped developing countries to implement their TRIPS obligations. In his Brazilian practice, Mr.Carvalho was the in-house attorney in charge of intellectual property matters of a Nippo-Brazilian steel company, USIMINAS,basedinMinasGerais,Brazil,for20years(1976-1995).Mr. Carvalho is known worldwide for his work as a published author of several books and articles in the Intellectual Property and Competition Law areas. His last book, The Invention of Intellectual Property in images and texts (forthcoming) shows how intellectual property has developed since Mesopotamia as tool of free trade and entrepreneurship. He is also a novelist and published poet. His literary works are available at the Kindle Store.</p>
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Dr. Nuno Carvalho

<p>Antony Taubman&nbsp;is currently Director, Intellectual Property Division of the World Trade Organization, with responsibility for the WTO’s programs on intellectual property, competition policy and government procurement.&nbsp;&nbsp;From 2002 to 2009, he was Director, Global Intellectual Property Issues Division of WIPO (including the Traditional Knowledge Division and Life Sciences Program), covering a wide range of programs on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore, the life sciences, and related global issues including the environment, climate change, human rights, food security, bioethics and indigenous issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;After a diplomatic career, he left the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2001 to join the newly-formed Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, at the Australian National University, teaching and researching on international IP law.&nbsp;<br />
From 1998 to 2001, he was Director of the International Intellectual Property Section of DFAT, and in that capacity was engaged in multilateral and bilateral negotiations on intellectual property issues, domestic policy development, regional cooperation, and TRIPS dispute settlement.&nbsp;&nbsp;He authored a training handbook on intellectual property and biotechnology, a monograph on the TRIPS Agreement and a comprehensive study on its implementation, and a range of academic and general publications on international intellectual property law and policy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Postgraduate teaching appointments at several universities include curriculum design and teaching at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, and Queensland University of Technology, as well as numerous contributions to other educational and training programs in many countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2008, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded him a Bellagio residential fellowship for his work on TRIPS and public policy issues.</p>


Mr. Antony Taubman

<p>Peter Hoffman is president of Elevated Advisors LLC. Elevated Advisors, LLC provides management consulting services to clients. Before establishing Elevated Advisors, LLC, Mr. Hoffman served for eight years as Vice President, Intellectual Property Management for The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace company. In this leadership role, he was responsible for strategies that protect and generate the highest possible value from this significant corporate asset. Hoffman managed the company's patent portfolio; protection of trade secrets; and licensing of all Boeing intellectual property as CEO of Boeing Intellectual Property Licensing Company. His accomplishments included presenting testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on federal trade secret protection<br />
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Mr. Peter Hoffman

<p>Grant Philpott is a British engineer with 32 years of service at the European Patent Office, culminating as Chief Operating Officer. He is currently a director of Trusted Technology Network (TTN), an IP consultancy providing independent, expert advice on technological innovation and its protection to investors and companies. &nbsp;Throughout his career he has been particularly interested in contributing to the successful transition of the patent system from hardware to software innovation. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge.</p>


Mr. Grant Philpott

<p style="text-align:justify">He is a German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney with his office at Munich, as a partner of Boehmert &amp; Boehmert. His technical background (as well as PhD degree) is in physics. He teaches Intellectual Property Law as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a Lecturer at the Bucerius Law School (BLS), Hamburg, and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, and as a Visiting Professor as well as a Lecturer at several further universities in both Asia and U.S.A.. He is a Past-President of LES International and of LES Germany. He has received the Gold Medal of LESI in 2005 and has been inducted into the IAM IP Hall of Fame in 2014. During the years 2018 – 2020 he has been an ad-personam member of the EPO’s Standing Advisory Committee (SACEPO). For 2023 he has been listed, again, as belonging to IAM 300 Global Leading IP Experts.&nbsp;<br />
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Dr. Heinz Goddar

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<p>He is a Board member of the Directors of the Research, Development, and Innovation Authority (RDIA) and a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Saudi Authority of Intellectual Property ( SAIP). He received the King Abdulaziz Medal of the Excellent and first degrees for completing many patents in the fields of chemical and petrochemical industries that contributed to the national economy. He was ranked among the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world according to the Stanford database, He also earned the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Award for Inventors and Talents, in addition to King Saud University Award for Distinguished Scientific, He earned Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Scientists individually in the engineering field and the Emirates Energy Award, and he worked as a consultant for many entities, sectors and companies including SABIC.&nbsp;</p>

<p>He supervised the FE and PE exam preparation Committees for engineers in Saudi Arabia. &nbsp;He worked as a member of the boards of many universities inside and outside the Kingdom and worked on developing some existing industrial projects. &nbsp;He has published 26 patents registered in U.S. and European invention offices, has more than 200 scientific papers published in journals included in the ISI database, authored 3 books on chemical engineering, and translated 3 scientific books in the Chemical Industry. &nbsp;He supervised 28 master's and doctoral theses in chemical engineering and polymer engineering.<br />
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Dr. Saeed Al-Zahrani

<p>-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The AC is administratively and organizationally linked to the chief executive. It consists of no more than nine members of consultants, researchers, and academic leaders enjoying experience and competence. They are appointed by a decision from the CEO. The CEO shall be the Board Chairman and shall appoint a vice chairman.<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The membership term shall be two years and shall be renewable by the CEO's decision.<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The CEO shall have the right to suspend or cancel the membership of any of the members where he deems this in the interest of the AC.<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The CEO may discharge any board member from office upon request. The CEO manages meetings, maintains their order, and raises issues to make recommendations about them. The Vice President replaces the Chairman in his absence.</p>


Submit recommendations and proposals about the topics referred from the CEO for consideration.

Express opinions and submit recommendations on everything that would contribute to the development of all areas related to intellectual property in the SAIP.

Consider the SAIP objectives, strategies, policies and future to ensure that it keeps pace with global changes.

Any other tasks required for the Council's works as determined by the Chairman.

<p>The AC functions as an advisory body affiliated to the SAIP. Its functions focus on the following:</p>
