Being a company that is a blend of experience and actuality of global knowledge in the field of intellectual property, leaders in creation of high quality services performed diligently and professionally resulting in satisfaction of our customers and recognition in the region and beyond.
MISSION
Continuous meeting the demands of our customers and exceeding their expectations in line with relevant national and international standards and regulations for safety and quality of delivered services, commitments for long-term growth, profitability and high quality work that produces benefits for our employees and business partners.
PRINCIPLES
• Focus towards the customer
• Focus on quality
• Approach of the process
• Continuous improvement
• Focus towards the employees
• Partnering with professionals
• Responsibility for overall development
Macedonian Inventions Presented by Berlin Agency at "TAIWAN INNOTECH EXPO 2019", won prizes in competition of more than 600 exhibitors and 1500 inventions
Three Macedonian Inventions Presented by Berlin Agency Receive Medals at "TAIWAN INNOTECH EXPO 2019" International Exhibition
05.10.2019
Inventions of Macedonian inventors unveiled at "TAIWAN INNOTECH EXPO 2019", held in Taipei from 26-28 last month, between 600 exhibitors with around 1500 inventions and 45,000 visitors, met with widespread interest, and proof of success are the prizes won.
Inventions titled: " Device for filtration of gases prodused by combustion" by Inventor Pande Petkovski and" Vertical Soil Humidity Survey as well as Vertical Soil Humidity Profile" by inventor Petar Indovski won bronze medal while the invention of "Corrective device for breasts, spine, torso and hands" won the medal for successful participation.
Macedonian exhibitors were accompanied by a diploma. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, European and Macedonian patent agent and head of the Patent Department, who also participated in the International Exhibition.
China introduced a rigorous intellectual property protection system
26.09.2019
This Monday, the head of the State Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) announced that the country will be adhering to a strict intellectual property protection system and will not stop building a good environment for innovation and business, bulgarian.cri.cn reports.
Shen Chanyou, director of NIPA, made the comment at the 10th China Intellectual Property Conference in Hangzhou.
He added that China would implement a strict system of punitive damages in combating trademark infringement and accelerate efforts to eliminate malicious trademark registrations. At the same time, the authorities will push for a revision of the patent law and set up a system of compensation to provide better protection for drug patents.
In terms of patent and trademark applications, China ranks first in the world.
13.09.2019
04.09.2019
USPTO restricts actions of non US attorneys in IP matters
27.07.2019
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a new rule requiring all foreign-domiciled trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings to be represented by an attorney who is licensed to practice law in the United States.
The requirement applies to all trademark applicants, registrants, and parties whose permanent legal residence or principal place of business is outside the United States.
These applicants, registrants, and parties are required to have a US-licensed attorney represent them at the USPTO in all trademark matters.
Additionally, US-licensed attorneys representing anyone before the USPTO in trademark matters are required to confirm that they are an active member, in good standing of their bar, and to provide their bar membership information.
This new trademark rule will be effective as of 3-Aug-2019.
The complete information is avalible at following link....
17.07.2019
PATENT
PATENT * is a set of exclusive rights granted by the state to the patent owner (inventor or holder) for a specified period in exchange for regulated disclosure of certain details of the invention that may be a device, process, method or composition which is new, possessing innovative contribution and usable or industrially applicable.
BERIN LTD. offers services in the field of protection of patents in the following segments:
Search in the patent bases.
Composing and editing of patent specifications for inventions in all fields of technology (pharmacy, mechanical engineering, chemistry, electrical engineering and others).
Registration of national patents in all countries in the region.
International registration of patents: Filing of PCT applications
Representation before the EPO: Leading procedures for the recognition of European patent before the EPO
Validation of European patents before all national offices.
Extension of European patents before the countires/joining members of the EPO.
Professional translation of patent specifications from and into Macedonian, English, German, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Romanian,
reek, Russian and French.
Edition of patent specifications in accordance with the national legislations of the states, and preparation of responses to oppositions and objections while being xanimated.
Annuities: Maintenance of patents.
TCM: Procedures for issuing a supplementary certificate for extension of validity of patents.
Licenses: Preparation and registration of license agreements for the use of patents.
Estimates: Value evaluation of Patents and inventions.
Transfer of rights.
* PATENT The term derives from the Latin word patere which means "to be open" (to be presented to the public) and the term letters patent, which originally marked the posh decree that gives exclusive rights to a certain person or business.
TRADEMARK
TRADEMARK is a right of industrial property, which refers to a distinctive sign used by a person, organization or legal entities for marking on their products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish their products from those of other entities.
[Conducting administrative proceedings]
Search in the national and international databases;
Registration of trademarks in all countries in the region;
International Registration of Trademarks;
Monitoring on the market and official publications;
Advisory services relating to the protection of trademarks;
Oppositions, filing and responding;
Provisional refusals, responding and filling proposals;
Cancellations;
Procedures to changes in the registers (transmission contracts, change of name and address);
Licenses: Preparation and registration of license agreements for the use of trademarks.
[Judicial protection and enforcement]
Litigation;
Mediation process for resolving disputes;
Requests for customs measures;
Inspection insights, insight and measures.
[Other Services]
Monitoring on the market and official publications;
Advisory services relating to the protection of trademarks;
Estimates: value evaluation of trademarks
* A trademark usually is consisted of a name, word, phrase, graphic logo, symbol, device, picture, or a combination thereof. Sign ® is used to denote characters that are registered with the Trademark Law, it is equivalent to the TM symbol used for the territory of North America.
COPYRIGHTS
Copyright is a term that covers the rights relating to creation, use and use of the copyrighted works and specific expressions of ideas/information.
Copyright work is intellectual work of a person or group of persons in the field of literature, science, arts and other areas of work, regardless of the type, manner and form of expression.
BERIN is a copyright agency that offers to the customers the following services:
[Representing authors and users of copyright works]
Making of copyright agreements between domestic and foreign artists;
BERIN through its network of representatives, authorized to represent before all administrative and judicial authorities, provides reliable and professional representation to its customers at all stages of realization and protection of the rights of intellectual property. By continuously monitoring on all legislative changes and practice in cooperation with our customers we provide the optimum outcome of any initiated proceedings.
Representation before administrative bodies covers:
Representation before the State Office of Industrial Property,
Representation before the customs authorities in procedures relating to customs measures in the field of industrial property,
Representation before the State Market Inspectorate,
Representation before the bodies for protection of competition,
Mediation: procedures for resolving disputes,
Representation in Litigation;
Consultation and advices on specific areas of intellectual property,
Analysis of laws and regulations concerning the areas relating to the interests of our clients and their transactions,
Deep technical and legal analysis of the technical solutions and state of patent protection,
Analysis of amendments to the laws and regulations that are relevant to the users and the authors.
* The representatives of BERIN have been involved in the hearings before the court of the European Patent Office (EPO), representing and defending patent specifications from different fields and on behalf of important companies from the region and beyond.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN is a right of industrial property, which refers to a specific appearance or shape of a body, picture, drawing, contours, composition of colors, texture or combination of them in a way that meets the requirements of novelty and individual character compared to those ones previously familiar to the public. Industrial design is a right that is intended to give the products that are aimed for a certain visual, aesthetic, ergonomic, practical purpose or quality to distinguish them from the rest of the products on the market.
The BERIN Agency in the area of registration and protection of industrial designs offers the following services:
[Conducting administrative proceedings]
Search, in the domestic and international databases;
Registration of Industrial Designs, in all countries of the region;
International registration of industrial designs;
Monitoring on the market and the official publications;
Advisory services relating to the protection of industrial design;
Oppositions - filing and answering;
Provisional refusals - proposals and responds;
Cancellations;
Procedures for changes in the registers: assignment agreements, change of name and address of holders);
Licenses: Preparation and registration of license agreements for use of trademarks.
[Judicial protection and enforcement]
Litigations;
Mediation: processes for resolving disputes;
Requests for customs measures;
Inspection insight: insight and measures;
[Other Services]
Monitoring on the market and official publications;
Advisory services relating to the protection of trademarks;
Berin® Intellectual Property Agency is an internationally active company founded in 1992. The company started on a modest scale, providing services primarily for the national market, and over time developed into a leading full-service IP Provider in the Republic of Macedonia and one of the bigest in the region of Southeast Europe. Berin® IP Agency has its own network of representatives and/or partner offices in: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, EUIPO (EU Intellectual Property Office), EPO (European Patent Office), EAPO (Euro-Asian Patent Office), Germany, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Company's growth resulted in opening of its own office in Vienna (Austria) in 2014 operating as an indipendent IP R&D consulting and patent anuity and renewals watching and administrating firm under the name "Berin® International GmbH" Vienna.
Berin® IP Agency Ltd offers full range of IPR protection to clients from all over the world and is specialized in preparing and filing patent, industrial designs and trademarks applications, copyright and neighbouring's rights protection as well as in the field of technology and know-how transfer, franchising and licensing. The longstanding connections with intellectual property law firms around the globe allow Berin to serve clients creatively and cost-effectively. Many of Berin's attorneys are qualified to practice in several areas and before domestic and international IP offices, including the EPO, EUIPO, EAPO, above mentioned national IP Offices and specialized organizations and offices, including World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is administrating Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) as well as Madrid Agreement and Protocol for Trademarks and Haag Agreement for Industrial designs.
Berin's employees are experts of various profiles, engineers from different fields as well as attorneys and IP agents. All of them are well-respected local and international IP experts supported by a team of experienced and multilingual paralegal and administrative staff as well as subject matter experts (SMEs) from different fields such as: mechanical engineering, electrical & electronical, software and computers, chemical and pharmaceuticals, enviromental and civil and architectural engineering as well as jurists and lawyers. Constantly, Berin's team is praised for consistently providing quick, reliable and easily comprehensible service to its clients. Berin's team believs that quality is a prerequisite when working with a service provider. Since its foundation Berin Ltd. has invested and established an effective Quality Management System to plan, conduct and constantly monitor service quality and guarantee customer satisfaction. The Quality Management System conforms to the internationally accepted best practices as defined in relevant security standards, procedures and guidelines, following ISO 9001:2015 certified by TÜV Rheinland.
Berin® Ltd. today is a symbol of loyal, sustainable and price-wise very competitive IP Partner, performing high quality services in the interest of our international customers. Berin is well known as a regional firm that serves a diverse mix of clients, from individuals to world's leading corporations, most of which work directly with us. The majority of Berin clients require its services at a regional level, from a few to over 30 countries. In addition to this, Berin Ltd. has built a reputation of a European IP firm that successfully handles patent, trademark and design filings and related issues before the national ofiices as well as before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and Eauroasian Patent Office (EAPO) under very competitive expenditures.
1992 : Founding Georgi Filipov decided to initiate proceedings to establish a company
1993 : Registration Decision on establishment of enterprise for marketing, research and development BERIN LTD Skopje
1993 : Patents Filing of the first application for granting patent rights
1994 : Partnership Liljana Markovska Filipova joined the company as co-owner
1994 : First Industrial Design and Trademark Applications: Submission of the first application for recognition Industrial Design and Trademark registration
1995 : First PCT Application Submission of the first international patent of inventor from Republic of Macedonia under the PCT (Treaty Extending Patents)
1996 : Promotion of Inventions Participation on the International Fair for Inventions and conquering the Grand Prix Eureka 1999
1997 : International Trademarks First application filed under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
2001 : International Protection of Industrial Designs First application before the WIPO under The Hague arrangement for registration of industrial designs
2004 : Representation before the EPO Start of representation before the European Patent Office
2005 : Representation before the OHIM Start of representation before the OHIM
2009 : Representation before the EPO Start of representation before the European Patent Office
2010 : Certification Implemented and certified system for quality management ISO 9001: 2008
2012 : International Fairs First solo participation on the International Fair of Intellectual Property in Munich- Visit of deputy director of EPO Mr. Željko Topić at the stand of Berin
2014 : Expansion Founding of Berin International GmbH in Vienna, Austria
2015 : Software Introduction of (Paperless) completely electronic administration of procedures
2016 : First Macedonian Patent to EPO First Macedonian Patent recognised in European Patent Organisation
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