Invention and Development Workshop at the Faculty of Dentistry at Damascus University

 Today, the Faculty of Dentistry at Damascus University organized a workshop on “Invention and Development” where creative and innovative ideas were presented.

Director of the Patent Office and the workshop coordinator, Professor Dr. Jihad Abou Nassar, indicated that the workshop attracted students and researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry and from outside the faculty. Its topics focused on how to complete the invention, develop it to obtain a patent, and document it in the Intellectual Property Protection Directorate in the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection.

Prof. Abu Nassar stated that the aim of the workshop is to answer the questions: “How does an inventor think?”, “How does he move from a state of high thinking to a state of invention?”, “How does he move from previous inventions to new innovative situations?” in addition to reviewing international inventions and the conditions for invention, its arbitration, and how to submit documents to obtain a patent.

It is noteworthy that the Patent Office at Damascus University is responsible for coordinating patent issues between the University and the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection. Its mission is to spread the culture of invention and development in the university and society, empower academics in this field, contribute to raising the university’s classification, educate, implement and motivate everyone who wants to become an inventor through ongoing and periodic courses and seminars organized by the Office.