On the course of the celebration of the 104th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia, with the aim to promote the importance of intellectual property protection for the development of modern economy and society, the competition has been conducted for the presentation of awards of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the period September 3 – October 10, 2024 in the four categories of competition:
- WIPO National Award for Inventors;
- WIPO National Award for Enterprises.
- Author of the monograph / study exhibition in the domain of social humanistic sciences – National Award for Creativity.
- Pupil of group of pupils of the secondary school for the invention – WIPO National Award for Schoolchildren.
Criteria for the presentation of awards in the first category of competition:
- It concerns domestic invention or group of inventions.
- Patent protection has been realised.
- Patent is valid.
- Patent has market potential or actual practical implementation or proven success on the market, as well as letter of support of the potential patent user.
- Usefulness for the economy and society from patent can be seen through the increase of employment, export, productivity, energetic efficiency, environment protection or improvement of the quality of life, with the special consideration of 2024.
Criteria for the passing of awards in the second category of competition:
- It concerns domestic legal person or domestic entrepreneur;
- The legal person or the entrepreneur, in the last five years, realized industrial property protection by patent and/or industrial design and/or trademark and/or topographies of semiconductor products and/or it concerns authorised user of the indication of geographical origin.
- The economic activities, such as: initiation of new products/processes, investment in the development and/or examination, new employment, growth of export, growth of productivity, increase of energy efficiency, environmental protection or increase of the quality of life, connected to the registered rights of industrial property.
Criteria for the passing od awards in the third category of competition:
- It concerns individually written or critically arranged monograph of the domestic author that has been published or accepted for publication in the 2024, with at least one recension in the impress, characterised by the theoretical debt, erudition and critical understanding of the problem it deals with; or the study examination with the catalogue with at least one recension in the impress, deeply and uniquely dealing with the history of science and culture and social meaning of technology.
Criteria on the passing of award in the fourth category of competition:
- It concerns invention of domestic pupil or domestic group of secondary school pupils contributing to the protection of natural environment, energetic efficiency or improving of life quality.
The winners for the first category was decided by the panel in the composition:
- Engineer Vladimir Nikić, organisation team of the Competition for the Best Technological Innovation – president of the commission;
- Danica Mićanović, expert for the innovations and transfer of knowledge and coordinator for the field of intellectual property in the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia;
- Nataša Milovanović, Head of the Department for Machine Engineering, General Technique and Electrical Engineering in the Intellectual Property Office.
The winners for the second category was decided by the panel in the composition:
- Sanja Popović Pantić, PhD, president of the Association of the Business Women of Serbia, counsellor of the European Network of Entrepreneurship and senior scientific counsellor in the Centre for the Examination of Science and Technology Development in the Institute “Mihajlo Pupin” – president of the commission;
- Iva Vuksanović, senior counsellor in the Centre for support programs to economy and micro, small and medium enterprises in the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia;
- Aleksandra Mihailović, Asst.Director in the Intellectual Property Office.
The winners in the third category were decided by the commission in the composition:
- Aleksandar Petrović, PhD, full-time professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University – president of the commission;
- prof, Jelena Đeranić Perišić, PhD, director of the Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade;
- Biljana Jovičić, Head of the Department for Registers in the Intellectual Property Office.
The fourth category of competition was decided by the commission in the composition:
- Aleksandar Milićević, director of the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Niš – president of the commission;
- Nikola Srzentić, Director of the Regional Centre for Talents;
- Nataša Milojević, PhD, senior counsellor in the Intellectual Property Office.
The award the WIPO National Award for Inventors, in the category of inventors or group of inventors for patent valid and actually implemented with market-proven success was awarded to prof, Aleksandra Ivetić, PhD, that realised protection by patent RS 65548 for the invention under the title “Silage stabilisers”. The invention protected by a patent, offers safe and efficient way of preserving silage from the harmful oxidation by air and offers safe environment for the development of bacteria of milk acid. The invention is founded on bioremediation, because it uses bacteria of milk acid that are already present in plants without the addition of inoculants. The stabiliser of silage acts in several ways: reduces the decomposition of proteins in the silage, protects contents of dry matter in silo mass, improves of aerobic stability because of the less PH value and greater contents of milk and vinegar acid, in comparison to the control silage. Nutritive value of silage is preserved and as such is the component in the feeding of cows on farms for the production of milk and meat, enabling higher production. The implementation of this innovative additive has its position on the market that shall be developed in the forthcoming period, The cooperation contracts have been signed with several companies in the country and abroad dealing with the production and commercialization of additives.
The award, WIPO National Award for Enterprises, in the category for domestic legal person or domestic entrepreneur for economic implementation of industrial property, was attributed to the legal society “Perfect Body Shine” from Belgrade whose owner is Jasmina Momčilović Nikolić. This enterprise is dealing with the production and sale of cosmetic apparatus for non-invasive and efficient solution of challenges concerning aesthetic needs of face and body. At the moment, there are three apparatus at the market having various performances, and apart from the salon in Serbia commercialisation has been realized for these devices in Vienna in Austria. Innovative design, and techology for these devices are protected at the national and international level. The company “Perfect Body Shine” protected its trademark at the territory of Serbia, as well as for all the states members of the European Union, in Monaco, Turkey, Russia and China, and the process of protection is underway in another eight countries. Apart from trademark protection, three industrial designs are protected in the Republic of Serbia, as well as on the international level through the Hague System for member countries of this agreement. In the protection procedure, there are also three applications for the grant of patents for inventions implemented on the computer. Actually, technology for which patent protection has been asked belongs to the most modern computer technologies on which the work of the apparatus is founded as produced by “Perfect Body Shine”. The company “Perfect Body Shine” has been chosen to represent Serbia on the exhibition organized in July 2023 in Geneva in the seat of the World Intellectual Property Office.
The award – National Award for Creativity, in the category of author for monograph work/study exhibition with the catalogue in the domain of social humanistic sciences, was awarded to Mr. Slobodan Antonić, PhD, full-time professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade for the book Colonial (anti) education. Professor Antonić, in the awarded book, examines the crisis of the education system bent under bureaucratic pressures observing the education system only as an expenditure and not as continual creativity and offers critical insight in the circumstances that globalisation places before the Serbian education system. The conclusion is that good education should always have priority in relation to all other social activities and in that contents it can best understand existentialist importance of intellectual property.
The award, the WIPO National Award for Schoolchildren, in the category of pupils or group of pupils of secondary school for invention, was awarded to Miloš Radulović, pupil of the Machine – Traffic Engineering School in Čačak, who is from this year a student of the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, with the invention Solar Tracker and HHO Generator for storage of renewable energy. Miloš Radulović is the winner of many awards in the field of innovations, including first award for research work at the state competition of talented pupils of secondary schools in Čačak in May of this year. The invention of Solar Tracker i HHO generator solves the problem of efficiency of solar pannels that optimaly use solar energy by tracking Sun along certain radiuses. The solution thus defined offers a higher level of output energy in comparison to static montages of solar pannels and as such it solves the problem of cheap storage of renewable energy. It can be applied with all the modern energy systems, thus additionally solving the problem of limited space, where it is not possible to place more solar panels, but, by using additional surfaces to follow the Sun, it can be used as the efficient energy system.
We congratulate the winners and thank all the participants of the competition!
Apart from the mentioned awards, in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), we also present award for the domestic legal person with the highest intensity of using the international system of the registration of trademarks in the course of 2023 – award WIPO National Award for WIPO Users. This award was presented to the company„MAXIMA D.О.О., Dragiše Mišovića 16, 32240 Lučani“, which in the course of 2024 in relation to all the domestic legal persons had the highest number of the internationally registered trademarks. The company MAXIMA was founded in 1990 as the family company dealing with the sales of colours for walls, wood and metal. The production and active marketing of MAXIMA products on the market of Serbia started in 1994, and the most recognisable product becomes Maxipol. Today, the company MAXIMA has become the leader at the domestic market in the production and distribution of colours, dyes and other similar products.
The awards of the World Intellectual Property Organization shall be awarded on the occasion of the celebration of the 104th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Office on November 27, 2024.