Showing posts with label Seminar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seminar. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2009

Associate Sarah Hestad to Speak About IP in Oman

Curtis Oman will be presenting at an upcoming seminar and workshop regarding intellectual property protection on April 13th and 14th at the Knowledge Oasis Muscat. Associate Sarah Hestad from the Oman office will give a presentation on practical considerations for protecting intellectual property in Oman. She will also outline the local legal framework for copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets and discuss case studies and examples for how companies protect their intellectual property in Oman. This is the first seminar of its kind in Oman. Other presenters include a senior official from the European Patent Office and a senior official from the Intellectual Property department of Oman's Ministry of Commerce and Industry. For more information about the seminar, please click here.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

The Global Crisis and Impact on the Real Estate Sector

Bruce Palmer, managing partner of Curtis' Muscat office, was a speaker at a recent program titled "The Global Crisis and Its Impact on the Real Estate Sector". The seminar, which was held on Saturday, February 28, 2009, was the first in a planned series known as the Oman Investment Forum. The goal of this seminar was to address vital issues that concern the Oman economy, the regional landscape and the personal holdings of individual investors. Palmer's presentation focused on the weaknesses that the GCC governments must address in light of the current financial crisis. More specifically, he examined some of the loopholes in the real estate regulatory regimes in the UAE and Oman which need to be corrected.

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