AMMAN – Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman of the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) and chairman of the Working Group on Human Resources and Capacity Building (HRCB) of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF), declared that the first priority of this age is moving towards a knowledge-based society within the new global economy.
Abu-Ghazaleh stated that this should take place such that innovation maintains its role as a major tool of fair competition and respect of intellectual property (IP) rights remains as a major avenue to enhance innovation, pointing out that without respecting IP rights, innovation becomes obsolete. Consequently, the movement of the economy becomes hindered or ends altogether.
This came in a lecture delivered in the Libyan capital Tripoli entitled “What’s New in IP and IT”.
Abu-Ghazaleh stated: “We need to protect IP for our present and for our development and our economy’s progress. This is a message we’d like to highlight and emphasize in our Arab world.”
He added: “We cannot lay back in satisfaction and content when there are priorities that we need to enforce and enhance and that need to be adopted by broad sectors in the Arab countries.”