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About ICLS 

Due to the development of knowledge and the diversity of sciences, the importance of intellectual property has grown in our time at the social and legal levels. Thus, the products of the author and the inventor have become affecting the cultural, economic and political milieu in every society, and this effect has emerged through literary and artistic works and innovations that are industrially applicable, which undoubtedly contributed to forming and reforming the individual, society and the State. To reach this result, it was necessary to provide legal protection for intellectual property rights, whether moral or economic, and this is the reason for the existence of national and international legislation in most countries of the world that work hard to regulate the preservation of these rights and confront their illegal exploitation.

As a result of the technological revolution in the field of computer software and biology - which we have witnessed during the past twenty-five years - legal systems are facing new challenges. This appears in particular in the merging between computer technologies and means of communication, which made the legal rules pursue intellectual products of a technical nature known as artificial intelligence. On the other hand, scientific intervention did not stop at this point, but continued to make genetic material, human cells and living organisms an industrial sample and a new field for innovation. There appeared inventions of a biological nature described as (biotechnology) that have a great impact on human health.

With the increase in innovations, the giant companies were keen to exploit them in industry and international trade increased, and intellectual property became of a competitive value and a subject of monopoly. In light of this reality, developing countries find themselves in front of a wide gap between their productive capacities in the field of innovation and the knowledge industry, and what developed countries possess from the means of intellectual production and control over its resources.

This discrepancy in the acquisition and production of knowledge affected the variation in the level of legal regulation of intellectual property issues between countries, and this becomes clear when comparing the legislation of industrial countries and developing countries. Despite the efforts made by the national and foreign courts to confront the lack of legislation or its vacancy and to adapt the legal texts in force in resolving the issues before them, the judicial work cannot equal the legislative intervention in confirming the protection of intellectual property rights.

From here came the idea of holding an international conference on intellectual property dealing with the contemporary legal problems faced by intellectual rights holders, and studying possible solutions for them.