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BERIN IP AGENCY PARTICIPATED ON THE 83rd COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT INSTITUTE
21.11.2017
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.
During the work of the Council the new members of the appropriate committees of the EPI were elected for the period 2017-2020. The representatives of the IP Agency Berin were elected in three EPI Committees: Maria Kjoseska in the Committee for Professional Enforcement, Bogoljub Ilievski in the Committee for European Patent Practice and Vanco Damjansky in the Committee for Disciplinary Procedure. The Macedonian European patent attorneys have representatives in three Committees: Litigation, Education and By-Law.
In addition to the Council was held a seminar on "Patent infringement litigation in EU jurisdictions and the UPC Perspective".The two-day work and friendship with the other 160 colleagues, representing 12,500 patent attorneys from the countries that had ratified the European Patent Convention, provided a real opportunity for exchange of experiences and ideas for the further development of the European Patent Institute and the cooperation of the attorneys within their competencies, both with colleagues, and with their business partners.
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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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