After two and a half years and four video conferences, the council meeting was held this time as a physical meeting in the city of patents Munich (Germany). The meeting was attended by 120 delegates out of a total of 13,500 European patent attorneys from 38 countries, including Marija Kjoseska, Head of the Trademark and Industrial Design Department at BERIN doo and Bogoljub Ilievski, Head of the Patent Office at BERIN doo.

The day before the Council meeting, Bogoljub Ilievski, in his capacity as Vice President of the European Patent Institute (EPI), attended a working meeting and an informal dinner of the Presidium with EPI Executive Director Tatjana Lisak as well as an official meeting of the Presidium members. held the next day.

The work of the Council was preceded by a seminar entitled “Doctrine of Patent Equivalence”. The council delegates adopted the reports of the EPI President and Vice-Presidents, the Secretary-General, the Internal Auditors and the Treasurer. Also, the amendments on the with a by-law on elections of members of the working committees of the institute as well as changes in the code of conduct of European patent attorneys proposed by the Committee on Professional Conduct in which Marija Kjoseska participated were adopted with a large majority. The debates continued at the joint dinner of the council delegates, followed by delicious Bavarian specialties, and the representatives from BERIN did not miss the opportunity to strengthen the current cooperation and business ties and open new ones.