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- comprehensive, effective and proactive implementation of governmental tasks and responsibilities in the preparation of legislation related to the protection of intellectual property (industrial property rights and copyright) and research and development activities, with special regard to the needs of European Union and domestic policiepolicies
IV. Performing professional tasks in the field of international and European cooperation in the field of intellectual property
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Later on, the provisions of the Governement Government Decree were also incorporated into the Copyright Act.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HIPO attached considerable attention and importance to the development of e-administration. As a result of the measures related to the pandemic, the number of applications filed in electronic way increased by 3 to 4 times compared to the earlier period, from 300 to 400 to 1100 per month.
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In connection with the COVID-19 health crisis, three applications for compulsory licence were received by the Office until 31 December 2020. In each application a compulsory licence was requested for the active substance of the same particular medicinal product, in respect of the three patents which protected it.
As provided for by the relevant Act, the Office dealt with the three applications out of turn and took its decision in a short time frame.
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The Unified Administrative System of the Office comprise comprises the bibliographic and image data, the documents and the official letters that belong to the different intellectual property rights, namely patent, plant variety protection, spc, utility model, trademark, industrial design.
The public electronic-databases GAZETTE, IP-SEARCH, E-REGISTER, E-DOSSIER are also used by the Examiners. The IP-SEARCH database has an internal version for internal use only with the additional data that are not accessible for the public.
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In the Frecskay János Special Library, valuable documents related to intellectual property are available, the major part of which cannot be found in other public collections in Hungary. The Office formulated a digitalisation strategy defining the scope of documents recommended for digitalisation in order to make this unique public collection content customer-friendly, available and searchable to the public.
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As of 1 June 2017, the VPI receives international patent applications from nationals, enterprises and other organisations established in Lithuania, and as of 1 Septmber September 2020 also from Serbian users. Concerning the first Serbian application received by the VPI in 2020, it was HIPO that carried out the requested international search.
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