نظام براءات الاختراع، تصاميم الدوائر المتكاملة، أصناف النباتات، والتصاميم الصناعية

Chapter 1: General Provisions

Article 1

This Law aims to provide full protection - within the Kingdom - for inventions, layout designs of integrated circuits, plant varieties, and industrial designs.

Article 2

In this Law, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned thereto, unless the context requires otherwise:

Authority: Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property.

Subject matter of protection: Either an invention, a layout design of integrated circuits, a plant variety, or an industrial design.

Protection document: The document granted by the Authority

Article 6

A. The employer shall be the owner of the protection document, unless the work contract stipulates otherwise, where its subject matter results from the execution of a contract, or an obligation providing for exerting efforts to develop it, or if the employer proves that the employee would not have developed the subject matter of the protection had he not used the facilities, means, or data made available through his employment.

B. The previous provision shall be without prejudice to the employee's right to receive a special award to be agreed upon with the consent of both

Article 16

Any action resulting in the assignment of the protection application or the protection document itself must be in writing, signed by both parties, and approved by an entity acceptable to the Authority. No transfer of title, relating either to the protection application or the protection document itself shall be effective vis-à-vis a third party, except after filing the change application, paying the required fees, and recording it in the Authority's registers.

If several parties participate in filing one protection application or in the ownership of one protection document,