Ms. Maria Kjoseska, MSc, European patent attorney, Ambassador Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, European patent attorney and Liljana Filipova, dipl. Eng,, European patent attorney participated in the work of the 85th Council of European Patent Attorneys, which was held in Helsinki from 9-11. November 2018. About 200 representatives from the 38 countries signatories to the European Patent Convention took part in the work of the Council. On the first day, a seminar was held on the topic "The latest development in the European Patent Organization", initiated after the start of the mandate of the new EPO president, Antonio Campinos. Unusually, almost all delegates attended the seminar.
The second day was dedicated to the working reports submitted by the Chairman of the Board, the Secretary General, the Treasurer, the Internal Audit Committee, the EPI Finance, the Budget, the EPPS, the OCC, the By-Law, the EPO Finance, Disciplinary and the Committee for Harmonization. Previously, a video speech by the EPO President Dr. Campinos was emitted. After each submitted report questions were asked or the comment was commented on. At the end of the working part, a discussion was held on the topic "The future of our (patent agent’s) profession," where it was debated about the role of artificial intelligence in inventions and in the profession of patent attorneys (Whether the robot could be inventor or holder of a patent right?), but also around the "hot topic" - a small number of patents applications from countries that joined the European Patent Organization later than founder’s countries (with the exception of Slovenia) after 2000. On 11.11.18, an excursion was organized for the delegates in order to get familiar with the cultural, historical and technical and technological achievements of Finland. It is agreed that the next meeting will be held in Sofia in March 2019.

Evgenia Divitarova from SOTU "Gorgi Naumov" from Bitola for the invention "CNC Laser Engraving Machine" (MAKINOVA) and Nada Bakalovska from OSO "Aco Ruskovski" from Berovo for the invention "Cream against burned skin" (ECONOVA) are winners of the traditional money -awards with diplomas (Gold Medals for Youth Creativity), awarded by the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin". The awards were presented to the young inventors by the Deputy Director of "Berin", dipl. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, European and Macedonian Patent Attorney, Delegate to the Council of the European Patent Institute in Munich. Berin congratulated the awarded and expects them with their new projects, which eventually are going to be candidates for Macedonian and European patents.... This year BERIN actively participated in all events related to inventors and inventions, the protection of industrial design and patentable inventions, which took place during MAKINOVA and ECONOVA 2018, (23-28.10.2018), organized by Narodna tehnika (National Techique) of Macedonia and the Union of Inventors and Authors of Technical Improovements of Macedonia (SPATUM-UIATIM). Thus, a member of the Commission for Evaluating the Inventions was a Dipl. Eng., Vanco Damjanski, CEO of the company, a Macedonian and European patent attorney, a delegate and a member of the Disciplinary Commission at the European Patent Institute in Munich... The founder of the company "Berin", the ambassador prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, President of the Association of Inventors of Macedonia (SPATUM- UIATIM), from 2000 to 2005 held a lecture on the topic "Goals of the Inventing Activities and Current Conditions with Patents in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)". The lecture was dedicated to the jubilees "70 Years of National Technique" and "60 years of the Union of Inventors and Authors of Technical Advancement of Macedonia (UIATIM)". Dr. Gjorgji Filipov kept several hours in reviewing the exhibited inventions, in association with the inventors and the members of the Evaluation Committee, as well as with some members of the Management Team of the National Technique of Macedonia, the President, Mr. Zoran Todorov and Mr. Pere Mitrev.

Exhibition of inventions and new technologies  ”Taiwan INNOCECH EXPO” (Formerly known as TAIPEI INT'L INVENTION SHOW & TECHNOMART / TAIPEI INST)which is a part of the activities of the Taiwan bureau of Foreign Trade and organized by Taiwanese Organization for Foreign Trade Promotion ( TAITRA) this year from 27^thto 29^thof September have held the exhibition  on 17.500 m2 ground with 565 participants and together with the parallel global event, e-Commerce Expo Asia, that was visited by more than 70.000 visitors.

For the official innovation contest 480 inventions were registered from 24 countries as well as one invention from Macedonia represented by our IP Agency Berin.

Invention of Viktor Nastev “Smart Bumps” have been prized with silver medal in the official rank, which is great success for this invention since it fully comply with the slogan of the exhibition slogan “ Sustainability, Innovative Inventions and Future technologies.

Apart from the official ranking two inventions by Macedonian inventots were presented at the show “ Shirt stay “ from Mr. Kristijan Popovski and Mr. Nenad Pantović and ”The water purification plants which uses bio filters” by Mr. Joti Popovski.

Within the activities of the Diplomatic Club Skopje  on the occasion of 25 years since the membership of the Republic of Macedonia in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov has written a paper on this topic.

The paper has been published in Diplomatic Chronicle, No. 5, June 2018. In the paper are especially considered the following subjects: the creation of the legal regulation in the Republic of Macedonia as a basis for membership in WIPO, the beginnings of the presence of representatives of the Republic of Macedonia in the headquarters of WIPO in Geneva, the Institute for Protection of Industrial Property of the Republic of Macedonia and its activation of the work of WIPO.

The emphasis in the labor is given to the accession to the agreements administered by WIPO, that is, the continuity of the cooperation of the Republic of Macedonia with the World Intellectual Property Organization since 1993 until today.

The full text of the prof. Dr. Filipov can be read on the following link:

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On invitation by the "Europa Institute" from "University of Saarland" in Saarbrücken, Germany, prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov held a lecture on "Patents" on July 18, 2018. The lecture was part of the Summer School "European Competition Law & Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" (8-21 July 2018), organized for postgraduates and PhD students from the countries of Southeastern Europe and Germany.

During the lecture within three school hours prof. Dr. Filipov focused on the characteristics and challenges of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent System, making comparisons with the patent systems of the United States, Japan, Korea and China. Within the framework of his visit to the University of Saarland,  prof. Dr. Filipov was introduced to the work of the faculties and institutes of information science and computer engineering at this university (counterpart of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at  the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”).

Dr. Filipov and the Agency for Intellectual Property BERIN express their gratitude to the European Institute, prof. Dr. Thomas Gegerich (executive director of the institute), prof. Dr. Neda Zdraveva (coordinator of the Macedonian group of participants), to the masters Marijke, Jana, Reg, as well as to the doctoral candidates, Dominique and Janik  on the reception and assistance during their stay. A special gratitude to all the attendants of the Summer School for their active participating in the lecture.