Intellectual Property Rights
Concept:
KAFD provides financial support for the registration of intellectual property rights for applied scientific research projects financed by KAFD and implemented by Jordanian students.
Objectives:
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Providing financial and technical support for Jordanian inventors.
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Motivating the Jordanian student towards entrepreneurship and creativity.
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Finding a permanent institutional umbrella to sponsor the registration of IPR both inside and outside the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Conditions:
- The applicant has to be a Jordanian, regularly studying in a university (Bachelor's, Master's degree or PHD respectively)
- The invention has to have a new valuable addition to different fields of science.
- The invention has to provide innovative solutions to problems faced by the Jordanian citizen or society.
- The inventor has to provide a certificate or a recommendation from a well recognized institution (i.e: Royal Science Society, or King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau) emphasizing the importance of that invention.
- Provide a document for the invention, stating the idea, the objectives, the method of implementation, the positive impact, and the funds needed for registering the invention.
- Submit two recommendation letters from experts in the field of invention.
- Submit a CV for the applicant.
Process of Implementation:
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All selected applications will be presented to a technical committee of qualified and experienced members appointed by KAFD.
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The committee submits to KAFD 5 applications yearly, recommending financing their IPR registration.
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KAFD decides to finance the registration of these 5 inventions, considering the committee's recommendation.
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In return to financing the registration, 51% of the IPR will be registered in the name of KAFD.
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KAFD may assist in linking the inventor with a private sector institution, to study the possibility of investing some inventions.
KAFD has registered two intellectual properties in the United States, and is aiming to register five new inventions.

