News of the Hungarian Patent Office for the year 2008.

 

Visit of Jesper Kongstad, Director General of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office to the HPO
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On 27th-28th November 2008 the Hungarian Patent Office hosted the first Intellectual Property Valuation in Practice Symposium.
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On the occasion of the Celebration of Hungarian Science the Academy-Patent Award 2008 was granted to Dr. György Kalaus, Dr. György Marosi and Dr. Károly Reményi
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Piracy and Counterfeiting on the Ocean of Intellectual Property - Enforcement in Hungary and China
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Austrian-Hungarian PCT cooperation
On 10 September 2008 the Presidents of ÖPA and HPO formally signed the agreement defining the PCT cooperation between the two offices.
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International Press Conference
The Hungarian Patent Office, in co-operation with the Austrian Patent Office and the European Brand Institute, will organise an international press conference in the Chamber room of the Hungarian Patent Office, on 10 September 2008, at 10 a.m..
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Eurobrand 2008 Budapest
The "Eurobrand Symposium 2008" Budapest, co-organised by the Hungarian Patent Office and the European Brand Institute of Vienna, will take place at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 10 September 2008.
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The Hungarian Patent Office's Strategy for 2007-2010 has been completed
The publication in English can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Hungarian Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks in Geneva
Dr. Imre Gonda, vice-head of the Trademark and Design Department of the HPO, has been elected...
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Visit of the President of the Finnish National Board of Patents and Registration to the Hungarian Patent Office
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Supervision over the HPO has changed
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Visit the HPO stand at the PATLIB exhibition in Warsaw
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Study visit of the delegation of the Intellectual Property Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Hungarian Patent Office's Annual Report 2007 was published.
The publication in English and Hungarian can be downloaded in PDF format.

Latest decisions on personal matters of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation
Dr Miklós Bendzsel, president of the HPO, was elected member of the Selection Committee and Dr Mihály Ficsor, vice-president of the HPO received his second three-year mandate as chairman of the Committee on Patent Law.
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National Board Against Counterfeiting has been set up in Hungary
The Board held its first meeting on 3 March 2008.
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Chief editor of the HPO's website receives life achievement award
At the eFestival prize-giving gala Dr. Zsuzsanna Tószegi received a life achievement award for her two-decade-long work for the digital library culture and the digitisation of the Hungarian cultural heritage