On December 7, in Skopje, a ceremony was held on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the State Industrial Property Office, which began work on December 1, 1993. We at the Berin Agency are honored that its first director was Gjorgi Filipov (1993-99), founder of Berin, previously director of various positions at Rade Koncar AD, engineer, president of the Union of Inventors of Macedonia (SPATUM), professor at UKIM, regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Macedonian and European patent attorney, author of many professional and scientific articles and a dozen books, member of the European Patent Institute (EPI), INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, FICPI and other associations in the field of intellectual property and diplomacy, i.e. international politics, winner of many domestic and international awards . We thank the organizer SOIP for inviting Dr. Filipov to address the audience, whose first speaker was the president of MK, Dr. Stevo Pendarovski, and the current director of DZIS, Blerim Idrizi, representative of the World IP Organization, also addressed , Hanib Assan from Geneva, of the European Patent Office, Christoph Ernst from Munich, of the European IP Office, Ybon Ormazabal from Alicante. The ceremony was attended by about 200 guests, among them representatives from the institutes of neighboring countries, patent attorneys, former and current employees, authors and inventors, while representatives of the media were not notiert. To all current and former employees of SOIP, to all representatives and officials responsible for the establishment of the institution, but most of all to all creators and inventors and companies that protect their property, we congratulate them on the anniversary of the beginning of independent care for intellectual property in Macedonia!