Dubai-based IP site 'forgets' Israel
I don't handle patents, but I can highly recommend my friend Dan, who wrote this post about a Dubai-based IP-services portal that left Israel off its map. Turns out this particular operation is based in Dubai. Apparently the Arab predilection for ignoring the facts and engaging in wishful thinking extends to the IP sphere. Newsflash for the guys running the site: Israel exists. Or was that flap a few months ago about some terrorist getting killed in a hotel in Dubai just a case of you guys getting worked up over what some ghosts did?Heh. Read the whole thing.
Not only does Israel exist, the PCT database lists 21590 published PCT applications having an Israeli applicant. That’s over 200 times more than the 104 such applications for the whole UAE. The disparity may partly explain why Israel weathered the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 so much better than Dubai did.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:36 PM
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What is "dubai"? Is it an Arab word for cesspit?
Pls fix the typepad link.
look at the Abbas map !
give them more territory to shoot missiles at us
disgusting
I remember a few years back a couple of Dutch and British journalists came back with Israeli school classroom maps. They happened to forget Arab communities and a number of them did not even acknowledge the the Palestinian territories at all or that they were occupied, but rather just put the entire national border around the entire thing.
The point being that politics and agendas abound on all sides.
Donny vdH
Rotterdam
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