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HIPO successfully joined the Regulated Electronic Administration Services, which made it possible for it to access the Central Identification Agent, the Interconnecting Registry 3 , the Registry of Instructions 4 and the Company Gate 5 . The fine tuning of the Office Gate proved also necessary on the basis of the experience made in the course of electronic commu - nications communications with the courts, and new or previously not defined functions were added to the electronic message and document sending functions of the earlier introduced Client Gate. HIPO joined the ADATREZOR (Data Treasury) initiative, which is mandatory for government organs, and within the framework of this initiative the digital assets of the Office are regularly stored in the central data treasury provided by the government.
HIPO started the modernisation project of the internal case management system. The EUIPO Back Office system was deemed to be best suited for the complete renewal of the internal case manage - ment management system of HIPO; the Back Office was already implemented in more than 10 EU Member States and so it is used by their IP offices as their own internal case management system. HIPO also made the decision to take it over and adapt the system to its requirements.
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The partners and customers of HIPO, who are interested in intellectual property, can choose from a variety of services or programs of customer service, information provision and education, ege.g.: AIDA, IP-Panorama, Start-up guide, Partner Search, Tenders, IP-Valuation, etc.: http://www.sztnh.gov.hu/hu/vallalkozoknak/hogyan-kezdjek-hozza
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HIPO has contracts for an indefinite period with 16 County Chambers of Commerce and Industry and 6 PATLIB centres (in Debrecen, Miskolc, Sopron, Pécs, Győr and Szeged) to operate information points of IP pro - tectionprotection. These information points provide updated information for clients, and – in the cases they deem necessary – contact the central Customer Service of HIPO, but they lack proactivity, so the Office decided to find more active cooperation partners that are closer to SMEs. To this end, it has conducted negotiations and initiated cooperation with xLabs Ltd. and the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs.
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In 2018 HIPO concluded cooperation agreements with Hiventures cPlc and Széchenyi Venture Capital Fund Management cPlc, the two largest state-owned risk capital funds, in order to raise IP aware - ness awareness among innovative Hungarian enterprises, especially start-ups, and organisations promoting innovation. Another agreement has been concluded with the Budapest Stock Exchange, as a result of which innovative Hungarian enterprises listed on the Hungarian stock exchange could make more efficient use of the competitive advantages on the market provided by intellectual property protection. Trainings and tailor-made services are HIPO’s main tools in making innovative enterprises and organisations promoting innovation more familiar with the national and international intellectual property systems.
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The Design Week Budapest Festival, organised with the cooperation of HDC, has earned international recognition during the fifteen years of its existence. The slogan of the festival, organised from 5 to 19 October 2018 for the 15th time, was Design: Our Mission, with Germany as guest of honour. The central events, 150 of which were held in Budapest and a hundred more in the partner towns of Debrecen, Győr, Pécs, Sopron, Szentendre and Veszprém, focussed on the theme expressed by the slogan and on the programmes of the guest of honour country. In its structure the festival followed its own traditions: in the framework of Open Studios workshops could be visited, while Design Tours offered different city walks. In honour of the festival’s 15th anniversary, several extraordinary professional events were organised with the support of the involved partners, such as a round table discussion based on the slogan, an education fair entitled Where next?, a presentation and pitch entitled Venture capital in the creative industry, a series of programmes com - memorating commemorating the Lajos Kozma Year, a conference entitled Future Now!, a forum entitled Hungarian designers in the German automobile industry, and DHB 15, the 15th volume of the festival providing an overview of its history was also published.
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