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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 Designs - National and International Legal Protection, Searches in the National and Foreign Design 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 study learning of industrial property rights begins within the Industrial Property Training Institute – Office's own educational facility. . 27 students completed their studies in 2015.
The Office presented its information activities, information and educational products at the following exhibitions and trade fairs:
- 56th
- 57th International Engineering Fair (Brno, CZ)
- 14th International Trade Fair of Engineering Technologies FOR INDUSTRY 2014 (Prague, CZ)
- 7th Trade Fair
- for Furniture, interiors and Home Accessories FOR INTERIOR 2015 (Prague, CZ)
- Innovation
- 2015 (Prague, CZ)
- 43st International Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva, CH)
- 66th IENA - Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations (Nürnberg, DE)
Other activities
Other activities
As part of cooperation with the Police and Customs Administration of the Czech Republic, 4 seminars devoted specially to patent databases, design and trademark information were organised.
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 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.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.
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.
A presentation of the Amazing Physics Theatre group- (UDiF) was held on World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), 4 May 2015 together with a discussion on intellectual property. About More than 200 students of secondary schools 320 6th- to 9th-grades students attended the program.
The Office has been continuing to take part in the project „Hrajeme si hlavou" (Let´s play with our mind) which popularises technical fields and motivates students of elementary schools toward technical education.
The Office presented itself at several events for students at elementary schools:
„Science Week at Jaderka", held by the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in May. The event was attended by secondary school students from across the Czech Republic. In the program, Office representatives performed the presentation „Ideas in the Net - Get Inspired,” and introduced students to the system of industrial property rights, and national and international patent and utility model databases.
The Office was represented by its own stand at the Science and Research Trade Fair, organized by Palacký University Olomouc in June.
The Office had a stand at the „Science Fair” held in Prague in September, where universities, scientific institutions and industrial companies were exhibiting. At the stand were offered informational materials, quizzes and memory games, examples of database searches were also presented. Panels with examples of inventions in various fields were prepared. The fair was attended by 16,000 pupils and students.
The Office took part in the All-University Open Day at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava in November. Representatives of the Office showed pupils and students databases and search methods, offered quizzes and informational materials. More than 1,500 visitors took part in the eventA „Youth Section" was launched on the Office's website at the end of October 2014. It offers a new graphic design and brings information on discussions and excursions, offers quizzes for download, informational fliers and comics on the topic of patents, trademarks and copyright.
VI.INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION
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