The Kingdom of Bahrain, or Bahrain for short, is an island nation in the southwestern Persian Gulf between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with which it is connected by a sea bridge. In 1995, Bahrain joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and implemented the TRIPS Agreement. Bahrain is also a member of the World Intellectual Property Protection Organization (WIPO), having signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1997. The legal tender is the Bahraini dinar. The term of protection of a Bahraini invention patent shall be 20 years from the date of application; The term of protection of a utility model shall be 10 years from the date of application; The protection period of the design is 10 years from the date of application and can be renewed for an additional 5 years. The specific patent annual fee is as follows: