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Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The Office provides full range all IP rights 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.
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
On the basis of an agreement between the EPO and Google, a development continued on „Patent Translate", a machine translator of patent documents. The possibility to translate from English to Czech and from Czech to English was also made available in the framework of this activity.
Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
Other activities
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information
Assistance to developing countries
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“ continued. 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 IPO CZ regularly organizes wide range of training courses and seminars - such as IP Protection and National (CZ) and International Systems of IP Protection in particular PCT, Intellectual Property Protection in Business (SMEs), Technology Transfer, Enforcement of Intellectual Rights, IP Jurisdiction (administrative and judicial issues), Trademarks and Designs - National and International Legal Protection, Searches in the National and Foreign Patent Databases. All the educational activities are organized for public, mainly for students, academic staff of universities, representatives of SMEs or research institutions and IP professionals. Lectures were also held at a number of innovation and technology centres and companies.
The IPO CZ also participated organizationally and expertly in the preparation of 3 seminars by the Czech Union of Inventors and Rationalizers.
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 presented its information activities, information and educational products at the following exhibitions and trade fairs:
- 56th International Engineering Fair (Brno, CZ)
- 13th International Trade Fair of Engineering Technologies FOR INDUSTRY 2014 (Prague, CZ)
- 19th International Interior and design Trade Fair TENDENCE 2014 (Prague, CZ)
- 22st International Trade Fair of Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automation, Communication, Lighting and Security Technologies AMPER 2014 (Brno, CZ)
- Innovation 2014 (Prague, CZ)
- 42st International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva, CH)
- 66th IENA - Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations (Nürnberg, DE)
Other activities
The IPO CZ continued 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 patent 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. The leaflet and comics books on the topics of patents, trademarks and copyright can be downloaded in this section. All the materials mentioned are also available for children and youth during their excursions 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. The result of the cooperation is a webinar dedicated to intellectual (and industrial) property for teachers from elementary and secondary schools. Recording of the seminar is freely available on the portal RVP.CZ.
A presentation of the Amazing Physics Theatre group- (UDiF) was held on World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), together with a discussion on intellectual property. About 320 6th- to 9th-grades students attended the program.
In September, 2014, the Office, in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market held an international conference on „Protecting Industrial Property in Europe." In parallel with the Conference, an exhibition of ideas and innovative solutions. Technical ideas and innovative solutions were presented by inventors from elementary school children to university professors.
On the occasion of the 2014 Intellectual Property Day the IPO CZ organized a performance of ÚDIF alias Amazing Theatre of Physics. This very professional show in which its performers managed to combine individual physical effects with intellectual property issues was attended by 320 elementary school children.
The Office also took part in evaluating the best inventions and innovations from students in the 8th and 9th grades at the „Marketplace of Ideas" at Technical University Ostrava.
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION
International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
International and regional cooperation in the exchange of machine-readable patent information in Epidos is realized on Internet. Exchange of CD-ROM and DVD carriers continues. Czech patent documents in paper form were distributed to patent offices of five countries.
The Official Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic is published exclusively electronically as of the beginning 2007. The Official Bulletin is published on a weekly basis (updated every Wednesday) instead of the monthly basis as it was before. The paper version has been discontinued. Electronic version of the Official Bulletin is available since 2000 (Czech version, English version is available since 2007) and accessible at the Office’s web site:
http://www.upv.cz/cs/publikace/vestnik-upv.html (Czech version)
http://www.upv.cz/en/publications/ipo-bulletin.html (English version)
The IPO CZ joined the UIP project to use the results of search work of National Patent Offices of the EPO Member States by the European Patent Office. The UIP project saves work and resources by making available to the EPO national search reports, information on classification and preliminary opinions on the fulfilment of requirements of patentability.
Various courses and seminars were organized for students and representatives of SMEs or research institutions; Groups of university students were accepted for excursions and guided tours for excursions and guided tours in the Office’s premises.
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information
The Office was involved in tasks connected to the reclassification project under way within the European Patent Network. This consists of reclassifying patent and non-patent literature, published in English, German and French, and classified according to the rules of the International Patent Classification (IPC), into the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).
On the basis of an agreement between the EPO and Google, a development continued on „Patent Translate", a machine translator of patent documents. The possibility to translate from English to Czech and from Czech to English was also made available in the framework of this activity.
Assistance to developing countries
The IPO CZ held a regular two-week training course for 5 – 6 participants.
Other activities
The Industrial Property Office continued to fulfil responsibilities resulting from the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union especially related to the area of industrial property protection. It participated in the meetings of the EU Council Working Group on Intellectual Property.Other activities
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