WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY 2018 AND THE PATENT OF THE YEAR

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.

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day campaign celebrates the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of the women who are driving change in our world and shaping our common future. In this regard, Mr. Goran Gerasimovski, Deputy Director of the State Office for Industrial Property, pointed out that, according to the current statistics, about 10% of the total patent applications submitted to the Macedonian IP Office were submitted by women with a hope that this percentage will increase in the future.