ABSTRACT
The primary objective of this work is to examine the development of national legislative regimes for the protection of intellectual property rights in the six states of the Arabian Peninsula that constitute ‘The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ’, otherwise known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),1 namely:
• the Kingdom of Bahrain; • the State of Kuwait; • the Sultanate of Oman; • the State of Qatar; • the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and • the United Arab Emirates (the UAE).
