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ANNUAL REPORT
We truly hope, that the atmosphere which has dominated us during this very difficult year, the daily quests, the concerns and the happy moments of the staff of the AGEPI, aimed at enhancing the image of the concept of industrial property in the Republic of Moldova, can be shared with you. At the close of the period under review, we can assert, disregarding the difficulties and sometimes sad experience, that at the end of this century in the Republic of Moldova, just as everywhere else in the world, the intellectual product has been reinstalled in its rights and now is availing itself of the respect it fully deserves. Alongside with other governmental organizations, with duties equal to ours and despite numerous challenges of the transition, the staff of the AGEPI managed to readjust the national industrial property system to the European and international ones and as an undoubted achievement, to grant expedite, accessible and low-cost protection for industrial property objects, so that the owner is granted the opportunity to enjoy the results of his labor in a market economy environment. The legal framework established during the eight years since the foundation of the AGEPI is now capable of determining the political framework and to provide incentive, at national level, for creativity and to boost industrial activity, which implicitly means intellectual product exploitation. The provisions of the TRIPS Agreement have come into force in the Republic of Moldova with the direct participation of the AGEPI. This constituted a deciding factor in the accession process of the Republic of Moldova to the WTO. Thus, we succeeded in successfully installing a medium benefice both for industrial property rights enforcement, granted to national owners, in the conditions of the increasingly globalized commercial activity, and involvement of foreign investments, aimed at reviving the national economy. An important event of the year under review constituted the Diplomatic Conference held in Geneva, where the Patent Law Treaty was adopted, which will constitute an additional legal basis for filing patent applications in the country of origin and abroad. The pursuit of flexibility and dynamism – intrinsic attributes of a modern patent office, has resulted in a major reorganization of the AGEPI’s structure. The newly created divisions have already joined the implementation of the acquired management expertise, of maintaining system advancement, of enlarging the range of services provided to inventors and industrial property rights owners in creation and commercialization of prospective innovations. The sharp advancement in information technologies and the enormous possibilities they provide for both the internal activity of our Agency and for assisting applicants and economic entities in establishing priorities in creating and implementing innovation through competitive products, have shifted the emphasis in the activity of the key-departments of the AGEPI, i.e. the enlargement of the local area computer network, elaboration of new databases, modification and exploitation of those already existing, establishing interactive relations for the implementation of the WIPO-net. In this way, the mandate of our office forces us to continue to be promptly responsive in order to honor the obligations taken by the Republic of Moldova under the international agreements administered by the WIPO. We will continue the cooperation, especially in the framework of the WIPO Program for Cooperation and Development, which is attractive to us for its initiative to diminish the impact of the rapid advancement of technologies on less developed countries. During the year under review we continued our role of primary disseminators of industrial property information, placing a special emphasis on implementing relevant activities in the counties of the Republic of Moldova by activating our representatives on the territory and creating the “AGEPI Mobile Center”. The necessity to competently and expertly assist our customers, and the society as a whole, has resulted in the year 2000 in the creation under the auspices of the AGEPI of the Intellectual Property Institute. This represented a shift from course-based training to the undergraduate and graduate education, aimed at enhancing national intellectual property system, strengthening the role of intellectual property managers in relaunching national economy through proper valuation of intellectual property and the establishment of a permanent study process. The first innovational Business-Incubator, founded in cooperation with the Mayoralty and the “ELIRI-INC” Ltd should also be pointed out. Since commercial transactions increasingly often dismantle national boarders, more and more disputes related to intellectual property objects occur. Very important is that both foreign and national applicants have gained the trust that we have the necessary legal framework able to impose sanctions on any infringement, to stop the counterfeiting and piracy of goods and to finally improve the life quality of everybody. We hope that the Specialized Arbitration Center founded within the AGEPI, the training of manufacturers from various sectors, of the customs officers and the interaction with businessmen will have benefice repercussions on the overall situation in this field. New directions in the field of intellectual property, generated by the course of events in the social, economic and environment sphere, require the adjustment of our activities to those of the WIPO, EPO and EAPO and also to those of other relevant international organizations. Thus, the reason why AGEPI intends to elaborate its future action plan keeping in mind the Program and Budget of the WIPO, which we consider will give us the chance to more efficiently make use of the tools provided by the global intellectual property protection system in stimulating and providing advantages to researchers and inventors, to deploy with the assistance of the WIPO an Innovation Promotion Center, national plans aimed at identifying and valuation of prospective ideas, to use the Internet in promoting intellectual property objects, technology transfer etc. Of course, to achieve the above goals we need an operational national political framework. AGEPI will continue to cooperate with foreign governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the Republic of Moldova and with public authorities responsible for industrial property rights enforcement – the customs, police and judicial authorities. Acknowledging its leading role, the staff of the AGEPI is permanently striving to enhance its professional expertise. Stimulating each employee’s initiative, high working standards, availability of the employees to respond effectively to the appeals from the state and its citizens enhances our credit of trustworthiness and inspire us toward further pursuits. With this message and hopes the staff of the AGEPI is entering the Third Millennium. Eugen Stashkov, |
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