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Office's library (if deals with trademark information): equipment, collection management, network of libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign libraries
Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
Patent library stores the trademark bulletins collection (Czech and foreign bulletins). Information about trademarks valid in the territory of the Czech Republic is accessible via public database. The database can be consulted in the public reading room equipped with PC workstations which are available for visitors.
The Office cooperates with Regional Patent Information Centres (PATLIBs) on information product dissemination.
Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The Office provides full range all IP kinds dedicated brochures, leaflets and guides free of charge. They can be downloaded in PDF format from the Office´s web site http://www.upv.cz/en/publications/information-brochures/information-brochures.html, picked up in the office headquarters or sent upon request. All the materials are distributed to visitors during fairs. The Office publishes its own books.
The Industrial Property Journal reflecting the current issues of IP rights is published six times a year.
Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
Cooperation with Metropolitan University Prague on training in a bachelor´s programme in „Industrial Property“ and a master´s programme in „International and Regional Relations in Industrial Property“. Lectures were held at a number of innovation and technology centres.
The IPO CZ also cooperates with other universities. There are seminars and educational activities (various topics) for students and academic staff organised in Office’s premises or in university headquarters. University students are also regularly invited for excursions and guided tours in the Office’s premises.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
The Office presented its information activities and products at the following exhibitions and trade fairs:
- 58th International Engineering Fair (Brno, CZ)
- 15th International Trade Fair of Engineering Technologies FOR INDUSTRY 2016 (Prague, CZ)
- Innovation 2016 (Prague, CZ)
- Science Trade Fair (Prague, CZ)
- Science Festival (Prague, CZ)
- Invent Arena (Trinec, CZ))
- For Interior (Prague, CZ)
- The Science Research Innovation Trade Fair (Brno, CZ)
- 44th International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva, CH)
- 19th Moscow International Inventions and Innovative Technology Salon (Moscow, RU)
- Euroinvent (Ias, RO).
Training courses for national and foreign participants
The IPO CZ regularly organizes wide range of training courses and seminars - such as Trademarks - National and International Legal Protection, Searches in the National and Foreign Trademark Databases, IP Protection and National (CZ) and International Systems of IP Protection, Intellectual Property Protection in Business (SMEs), Technology Transfer, Enforcement of Intellectual Rights, IP Jurisdiction (administrative and judicial issues),. All the educational activities are organized for public, mainly for students, academic staff of universities, representatives of SMEs or research institutions and IP professionals.
Every year, a two-year distance learning study of industrial property rights begins within the Industrial Property Training Institute – Office’s own educational facility.
The Office cooperates with EUIPO Academy on providing training and education.
Other activities
The IPO CZ continued in its activities for children and youth (elementary school pupils and secondary school students). The Office offers to them short training sessions on industrial rights, guided field trips to the Office's headquarters and an example search in trademark and other IP databases, as well as courses for teachers interested in adding the topic of industrial rights to their curricula. A special section for youth is maintained on the IPO CZ website. It offers a modern graphic design and brings information on discussions and excursions, offers quizzes for download, informational fliers and comics on the topic of trademarks and other IP rights (copyright as well).The leaflet and comics books can be downloaded in this section. All the materials mentioned are also available for children and youth during their excursion to the IPO or during the fairs and exhibitions.
The IPO also kept on cooperating with the RVP.CZ Methodological Portal, operated by the National Institute for Education to support of teachers.
During 2016 the IPO CZ and the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences organized the performance called “From Patents to the Stars” This event managed to combine intellectual property rights with space research and inventions that are used for research or have been created in relation to it. The performance was attended by more than 240 pupils and students.
Preparatory work was completed to launch an e-learning application, which will acquaint young people with the principles, individual institutions of industrial property rights protection and their significance in an entertaining way.Other activities
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION
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