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Dipl. Eng. Vanco Damjanski, European and Macedonian patent attorney, executive director of the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin" and dipl. eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, Director of the Patent Department, participated at the European Conference and at the Industrial Property Fair "IP SERVICE WORLD 2018"
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.
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".
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.
On June 11, 2018 in Vienna, the President of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen received a delegation of the "European Academy of Sciences and Arts", led by the President of the Academy, prof. Dr. Felix Unger. The ambassador, prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, Chairman of the Board of the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin" - Skopje and Director of "Berin International" - Vienna was one of the members of the delegation.
The International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting2018 was held for the 140th time from May 18-25 in Seattle (USA), the city of Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon, Jimi Hendriks, Nirvana and many other glorious companies and individuals who have contributed or marked the development of world industry and culture.
Bogoljub Ilievski, MRIP and EPA, Head of Patent Department at BERIN IP Agency, participated in the Annual Meeting called “Partnership for Quality” at the European Patent Office in Munich, as a member of the European Patent Institute (epi) . He is also responsible person for enforcing the Quality Management System of ISO standard 9001:2008 implemented at the BERIN LTD nine years ago . His experience helped to EPI side, to fruitful exchange of experiences between the responsible directors from the European Patent Organization concerning the implementation of ISO 9001:2008.
On the occasion of the International Intellectual Property Day - April 26, the State Office of the Republic of Macedonia, orginized an event and hosted the traditional award of the PATENT OF YEAR in the Thessaloniki Hotel in Skopje.
This year the PATENT OF YEAR award was awarded to the author Victor Nastev for the invention "Device with electric or pneumatic movement of a folding mechanism for initiating speed reduction of vehicles", whose application was filed in July 2017 by the representative BERIN.
The Delegation of the Intellectual Property Agency "BERIN in the composition of MA Mariјa Koseska and B.Sc. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski participated in the work of the 84th Council of the European Patent Institute (epi) that took place in Valeta (MALTA) from 13-14 April 2018. The IP Agency BERIN has its representatives in four epi Committees: Committee for Professional Enforcement (MA Maria Kjoseska), Committee for European Patent Practice (Bogoljub Ilievski), Committee for Disciplinary Procedure (Vanco Damjanski) and EPO finances committee (prof. d-r Gjorgji Filipov).
Dipl. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, Macedonian and European patent attorney (MZIS & EPA), Head of Department for Patent at the Agency for Intellectual Property BERIN, on behalf of the European Patent Institute (EPI), at the meeting in Munich on 25th January, was elected as e chair of quality subcommittee and consequently will act as a one of the four vice chairs of European Patent Practice Committee within European Patent Institute (EPI) for the period between 2018 – 2021.
This is an increase of 10.4% over the previous year, according to a new report. The IP5 Statistics Report, published jointly by the EPO, the Japan Patent Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, collectively known as the IP5 offices, presents official patent statistics from each office.
The delegation of the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin" in composition of: prof. Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, MA Maria Koseska and B.Sc. Eng. Liljana Filipova (Associate Member) participated in the work of the 83rd Council of the European Patent Institute (EPI) that took place in Warsaw (Poland) on November 17-19th, 2017.
The Intellectual Property Agency BERIN awarded two young inventors - participants at the 38th International Fair of Innovation - Makinova 2017, held at the Boris Trajkovski Sports Hall - Skopje from 25-29 October 2017 and on which were presented inventions and papers presented from about 50 inventions in two ctegories - Makinova and Ekonova.
On the 153rd meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation, held in Munich on 10 October 2017 under the chairmanship of Mr Christoph ERNST (DE), elected Mr António CAMPINOS to succeed Mr Benoît BATTISTELLI as President of the European Patent Office (EPO). Mr CAMPINOS' 5-year term will start on 1 July 2018.
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 book "BERIN IZVOR" written by Mr. Boris Dorzhev was promoted at the National Library of Pirot (Republic of Serbia) оn July 5th, 2017.
The book presents a monograph for the village of Berin, near the town of Pirot, which marks its 200th anniversary this year. The publication of the book is sponsored by the Association for Intellectual Property BERIN Ltd. Skopje.
The 139th Annual Meeting of the International trademark association INTA 2017 took place In Barcelona (Spain), from 20-24th May 2017 and was attended by almost 11.000 participans (patents and trademarks attorneys) worldwide. The Agency for Intellectual Property BERIN participated on the meeting with four members and one associate: Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, founder, Dipl. Eng. Liliana Filipova, co-founder, Dipl. Eng. Vanco Damjanski, CEO and Marija Koseska LLM & Dipl. Eng., head of Trademarks department. The organization included also Maja Damjanski, Dipl. Psychologist, counselor for publishing and communications from Skopje and Mr. Ivan Ivanov, associate, from Sofia. BERIN performed Seminar-Workshop for the partners from China and other countries of Far East on 22th May 2017.
BERIN’s patent attorney Bogoljub Ilievski attended the 84th meeting of the Standing Committee for technical and operational activities in the European Patent Organization (EPO) that was held on May 10th, 2017, in Munich (Germany). This Committee has more than 100 members (two members from each member states of the EPO as well as associate members countries of this organisation). The European Patent Office was represented by 26 member delegations headed by three vice-presidents: Dr. Raimund Lutz, MA Gila Minos and Mr. Alberto Casado. The composition of this committee is complemented by a representative of Intellectual Property Office of the EU (EUIPO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and European Patent Institute (EPI).
From 23 to 25 April 2017 in Munich (Germany) was held the 82nd General Assembly of the Council of the European Patent Institute, an organization of European patent agents, which has 11,500 members from 38 European countries. The Assembly was attended by 136 delegates, among them four from Macedonia. During this Assemble was elected the new president, Francis Leidern from Belgium, whose vice presidents will be Dr. Barbara Kunic, Slovenia and Dr Haik Fogelsang, Germany. New General Secretay is Roazh Pereira from Portugal.
The founders of BERIN Intellectual Property Agency, Lilyana Filipova and prof. Dr. Georgi Filipov, Ambassador, Macedonian and European patent agents during their visit to Austria attended two events in Salzburg: "Symposium on nanotechnology" held on March 3rd 2017 and on "The Official Meeting of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts" on March 4th 2017.
The first meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO) Working Party on Quality took place at the Office in Munich (Germany) on January 17th, 2017. This new SACEPO sub-committee was created by a decision of the President to provide another channel to gather feedback on quality at the EPO based on the experiences of major user groups. It forms a part of the EPO's wider strategy to continuously improve its services, and the ways in which users and the Office communicate with each other. Mr. Bogoljub Ilievski, Macedonian and European patent attorney (MZIS & ERA), Head of the Department for Patent at the Agecy for Intellectual Property BERIN has been elected as e representative of the European Patent Institute in SACEPO for the period of 2017-2020.
Dipl. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, Macedonian and European patent attorney, head of Department for Patent in BERIN intellectual property Agency has been elected as a delegate of the European Patent Institute (EPI) in the permanent advisory body for quality at the European Patent Office. It is a body of the European Patent Organization whose primary focus is the quality of the patent process.
At the meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council, the UK minister for Intellectual Property has announced that the UK government is proceeding with preparations to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. The court will make it easier for British businesses to protect their ideas and inventions from being illegally copied by companies in other countries.
The representatives from BERIN LTD, Maria Koseska, Vancho Damjanski and Bogoljub Ilievski, as regular members of the congregation of the European Patent Institute (EPI) and as representatives of the Macedonian delegation attended the 81st Assembly of the European Patent Institute (EPI) that was held in Berlin (Germany) on November 12 , 2016.
Dipl. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, Macedonian and European patent attorney (MZIS & ERA), Head of the Department for Patent at the Agency for Intellectual Property BERIN, on behalf of the European Patent Institute (EPI), has participated in the work of the Standindg Committiee on Technical and Operational activities at the EPO, which took place at the European Patent Office in Hague on November 3th, 2016.
The founder of IP Agency BERIN Ltd, Prof. D-r Gjorgji Filipov, had a speech on "digitalization and copyright" on 26.10.2016 within the Monthlty linguistic meetings "COLLOQUIA LINGUISTICA" organized by the Research Center for Areal Linguistics "Bozidar Vidoeski" in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU).
Dipl. Eng. Bogoljub Ilievski, Macedonian and European patent attorney (MZIS & EPA), Head of Department for Patent at the Agency for Intellectual Property BERIN, on behalf of the European Patent Institute (EPI), has expounded on "Management systems for quality certification and expectations of the usersâ€.
Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov and Dipl. Eng. Vancho Damjanski, executive director of the Agency for Intellectual Property Berin, participated in the event "Anti-corruption strategies in the economy", prepared by the German - Macedonian Business and Austrian-Macedonian business association as well as The Netherlands and American Chamber of Commerce in Macedonia.
13 March 2013, The EPO's Economic and Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB) has issued a statement with recommendations for improving the patent system, based on the main findings of its 2012 activities. Along with this statement, the ESAB has also published the reports of three workshops it conducted in 2012, namely on patent quality, the role of fees, and patent thickets.
Within the three-day conference on Mobile Applications Mobile App Camp held from 30.11 to 02.12 in MBC conference room Skopje Fair, organized by the Yes Incubator, with the participation of over 120 participants, ( more than 70 foreign) and 20 international mentors in this area, Intellectual Property Agency BERIN doo took an active part.
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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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