Cooperation between the Intellectual Property Office and the Competition for the best technological innovation, has advanced since 2021 through the offering of training to teams competing for the best technological innovation with the aim to recognize and protect relevant intellectual property rights, primarily patents.
The Intellectual Property Office, in the framework of this year’s Competition for best technological innovation, held three lectures dedicated to the protection of innovations with intellectual property rights, in particular: “Intellectual property rights with special emphasis on patent”, “Search of patent documentation in the database “Espacenet”, “Composition of application for the grant of patent/petty patent”. These lectures, in an online format, were held with the aim and wish to make the concept of intellectual property protection understandable for all interested parties. At the end of the lecture, the participants had the opportunity to get included in the discussion, asking questions regarding the protection of technical innovations by the patent and the realization of advantages over the competition – enabled by the protection of inventions.