GJORGJI FILIPOV AT THE 8TH DANUBE ACADEMIES CONFERENCE (September 21 – 22, 2017)
25.09.2017
The Chairman of the Board of the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin", prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, participated in the work of the 8th Conference of the Danube Academy of Sciences and Arts, which was held on 21-22 September 2017 in Belgrade (Serbia), organized by the Serbian and European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The program included topics in the field of environmental dangerous in the countries of the Danubian region and the neighborhood and searching for answer, what to do about the protection, but also what is the role of the universities in this action in the development of technologies and innovations which would contribute in that direction. The speakers at the event were the presidents of the Serbian Academy of Sciences (SANU), academician. Vladimir Kostic and of the European (EANU), acad. Felix Unger. Greetings words were given by the president of Alma Mater Européa as well as by the representative of the Slovenian academy, Andrej Kranjc and the representative of the EC, prof. Dr. Miroslav Veskovic. Participants at the event also were addressed by the the EC, Dr. Johannes Khan. Under the moderation of the academics Vladimir Stevanovic and Dejan Popovic have spoken the next participants: prof. Dr Thomas Hein, Wolfram Graf, Andrea Funk, Gertrud Haidvogl, Florian Pletterbauer, Rafaela Schinegger, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Daniel Trauner, Gabriele Weigelhofer, Prof. Dr Jasmina Šinžar-Sekulić, Dr Aljoša Tanasković, Dr Momir Paunović, Prof. Dr Bela Csányi, Prof. Dr Rumen Kalchev, Prof. Dr. Jovan Despotović, Prof. Dr Marko V. Ivetić, Mr Mihajlo Gavrić, Dr Aleksantar Šotić, Acad. Nicolae Panin, Acad. Cristian Hera, Acad. Boris Bourkinsky, Prof. Dr. Sc. Oleg Rubel, Dr Sc. Pavol Shajgalík, Prof. Dr. Sybille Reichert, Prof. Dr Ivanka Popović, Prof. Dr. Alojz Kralj, Dr Marijana Vidas-Bubanja, Prof. Prof. Dr. Georgi M. Dimirovski, Prof. Dr Vojislav V. Mitic, Ph.D. Dr Marcel H. B. Van de Voorde, Prof. Dr H.J. Fecht, Prof. Dr Ljubiša M. Kocić and Acad. Dejan B. Popović.
Prof. Filipov referred to the significance of the applied researches, making a quantitative comparison of the investigations from the countries of the Danube region that resulted in patent protection. He particularly emphasized the example of Slovenia, Austria and Germany, countries that have the largest number of applied patents-protected researches. Filipov also proposed measures that would promote the activity on this plan to other countries in the region.
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The seminar under the name “Forum shopping and European patent infringement litigation in a UPC environment, preceded by the work of the Council. The Chairman and Vice-Presidents of EPI, the Secretary General, the Internal Auditors, the Finance Committee, the treasury secretary and other committees were submitted and adopted reports. Furthermore, lively discussion about new proposed budget plan for 2020 as well about new proposed IP Commercialization committee within epi followed..jpg)
Mr. Campinos additionally was open to discuss and answer the questions from epi delegates mostly dedicated to status of the new measures concerning improving of the quality management system in the EPO.
Representatives of the Berin Agency, Mr. Bogoljub Ilievski and Ms. Kristina Cachoska participated in the seminar on "Patent Information and Databases" organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the State Office of Industrial Property Hotel - Stone Bridge in Skopje on December 3rd 2019
Presentations were made by Ms. Silvia Trpkovska from WIPO Transition and Developed Countries Sector, Mr. Vipin Saroha from WIPO Global Infrastructure Sector as well as a Hungarian expert and patent advisor, Mr. Farkas Szabol.
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