This workshop will be held in cooperation with the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), the General Division for the Digital Economy of the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce, and the Intellectual Property Rights Protection Office at the authority.
The Digital Economy Division of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce will hold a workshop on 5 October for small- and medium-sized companies and other companies operating in the software sector after the success of the first workshop that was held recently in the Chamber of Commerce of Assiut.
This workshop will be held in cooperation with the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), the General Division for the Digital Economy of the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce, and the Intellectual Property Rights Protection Office at the authority.
The workshop is scheduled to discuss the role of the ITIDA and the technical and development support it provides to software companies, in addition to the role of the ITIDA Intellectual Property Rights Protection Office in providing technical expertise and legal advice in relation to software, along with the importance of depositing computer works, databases, and websites.
The workshop also reviews the most prominent problems facing software companies with regard to contracts concluded between the company and programmers, the company and customers who use the software, and the form of the relationship between them and offering solutions to avoid these problems.
This comes in line with the national strategy for intellectual property launched by the Egyptian state with the aim of spreading societal awareness of the protection of intellectual property rights.
Additionally, the most important points of the companies’ guide prepared by the authority’s Intellectual Property Rights Protection Office will also be reviewed, along with the nature and importance of intellectual property rights for companies and their role in increasing and preserving the investments of these companies.
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