The Kuwaiti Patent Office has not yet started the process of examining the patents. All patents filed with the Kuwaiti Patent Office are practically in the application stage, but are officially protected for 20 years as of the date of filing.
Until the Kuwaiti Patent Office changes the current practice, all filed patent applications shall remain as documentary evidence of ownership and priority claim even in the absence of examination and issuance of certificates by the Patent Office.
The patent right shall belong to all of them jointly and equally unless they agree otherwise.
Where, however, the invention was arrived at by several persons each independent of the others, the patent right shall belong to the person who submitted his application first.
YES, the applicant or owner of a patent may at any time apply for the amendment of the specifications or drawing of the invention, indicating the nature of the alteration and the reasons therefore, provided that the alteration shall not affect the substance of the invention.
Kuwait is not a member of the Paris Convention, hence priority application are filed on reciprocal basis.
Not available at this time.
YES. All relevant documents can be filed within 3 months from the date of filing the application.
20 years protection term.
NO, an application for patent shall not include more than one invention.
NO. The usual actions of opposition, renewal, payment of annuities, working, and so forth (with the exception of the assignment of applications), are not currently applicable in Kuwait.
YES, the patent right and all rights pertaining to the patent shall develop by inheritance. Similarly, the ownership of a patent of invention may be transferred, wholly or partially, for or without a consideration, and may also be pledged.
Assignments can be filed without publication.
Where the invention is not utilized in Kuwait within three years from the date of the granting of the patent, or where the owner is unable to utilize it adequately to meet the needs of the country, or where the utilization of the invention has been stopped for a minimum period of two consecutive years, the Trade Marks Control Office may grant a compulsory license for the utilization of the invention to any person to whom the patent owner has refused to transfer the right of utilization or has made such transfer conditional upon the fulfillment of exorbitant financial terms.
In Arabic language.