Categorie: 2020-2021 years

On June 4, 2021, the workshop „THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS” was organized.

This event was organized in online format by the Association of Legal Culture Henri Capitant Moldova in collaboration with AGEPI and ODIMM, within the project Jean Monnet Support to Associations in European Integration and Intellectual Property Protection Studies / EUPROIN, implemented with the support of Erasmus + of the European Union.

The workshop was dedicated to the business environment and decision makers in the field of intellectual property and aimed to strengthen, understand and raise awareness of the role of intellectual property development (IP) in the EU and the Republic of Moldova; informing and sensitizing the business environment and civil servants in Moldova about the importance of developing intellectual property for the integration and economic growth of Moldova in general, but also the need to integrate intellectual property objects in the development strategy of enterprises, in particular; analysis of the achievements and challenges of intellectual property development in the EU and the Republic of Moldova; increasing the visibility of research conducted in the field of issues related to IP protection, etc.

The event was moderated by Ms. Rodica CRUDU, PhD, associate professor, coordinator of the EUPROIN project and was opened with greeting messages from:

– Viorel IUSTIN, Director General of the State Agency for Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI), partner institution in the implementation of the EUPROIN project

– Iulia COSTIN, General Manager, Organization for the Development of the Small and Medium Enterprises Sector, partner institution in the workshops dedicated to the business environment

– Alexandre CHAVANNE, representative of the French Alliance and the French Embassy in the Republic of Moldova, who is also a co-financier of this project.

During the event, representatives of the business environment and decision makers had the chance to listen and discuss topics such as:

– Protection of trade marks, design and geographical indications at Community level; Integration of intellectual property objects in enterprise development strategies (Natalia MOGOL, PhD, Deputy General Manager of AGEPI, key expert in the EUPROIN project implementation team);

– Between purpose and reality towards individualizing a business: (Andrei MOISEI, AGEPI Principal Consultant);

– Protection of international trademarks, design and geographical indications: the Madrid, The Hague and Lisbon systems (Violeta GHETU, Lawyer, Trademark and Design Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva)

– Protection of intellectual property rights in the European space. Duties of economic agents and consumer rights in the field of IPR (Olesea PLOTNIC, Dr. hab., Secretary General of the Association of Legal Culture Henri Capitant, Moldova, key expert in the EUPROIN project)

– Ensuring the protection of intellectual property rights in the Republic of Moldova and combating product counterfeiting (Ion ȚÎGANAȘ, Dr., associate professor, lawyer)

Those over 80 participants were active and addeessed various questions to the speakers, and at the end stressed the importance of awareness of the role of intellectual property and integration of intellectual property in business development strategies in the context of European integration and implementation of the Modlova Association Agreement. European.

The video recording of the event can be sees here.

On March 12^th, took place the Jean Monnet Conference „Intellectual Property Development in the EU and Moldova: Challenges and Perspectives”. This conference is an activity organized within the project Jean Monnet Support to Associations in European Integration and Intellectual Property Protection Studies / EUPROIN, implemented by Association of Legal Culture Henri Capitant Moldova with the support of Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

The purpose of the Conference was to strengthen the understanding and awareness of researchers on the development of intellectual property (IP) in the EU and beyond the EU, including Moldova; to increase the visibility of the research on issues related to IP protection; to inform and sensitize the representatives of NGOs and civil servants on the importance of IP development for Moldova’s integration and its economic growth; to analyze the achievements and problems of IP development, etc.

The conference PROGRAM can be consulted HERE

The event was opened with a greeting message by Mrs. Rodica Crudu, PhD, associate professor, Director of Programs and Projects within AO Henri Capitant Moldova, who is also the coordinator of the EUPROIN project. With greeting messages also participated:

– Dr. Dorin Cimil, President of AO Henri Captain Moldova;

– Dr. Natalia Mogol, Deputy General Manager, State Intellectual Property Agency (AGEPI);

– Mr. Alexandre Chavanne, French Alliance of Moldova.

The plenary session of the conference was opened by GIL ROBLES Jose Mª, Honorary President of European International Movement and Honorary President of EuroMediterranean University Institute, Former European Parliament President (1997-1999).

The plenary session was Livestreamed on the Youtube channel of the EUPROIN Project. The video recording of the plenary session can be viewed HERE

For the plenary session, 3 presentations were selected to give insights about the three parallel panels that followed after the coffee break, having as  speakers:

• Professor HEINEMANN Andreas, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland; member of the Swiss Competition Committee. He delivered the presentation entitled „Patent Strategies and Competition Law„. Discussions on the subject of interference between intellectual property and competition continued in panel 1 “Competition, Intellectual Property and Economic Growth”, moderated by Dr. Rodica Crudu

The video recording with the discussions from panel nr.1 can be viewed HERE

Dr. PAVIS Mathilde, Senior Lecturer, Exeter Law School, University of Exeter who delivered a presentation on the topic: “The impact of artificial intelligence on the use and protection of performances”. Discussions on this topic continued in panel nr. 2 „Intellectual Property in support of creative industries”, which was moderated by Dr. Natalia Mogol.

The video recording with the discussions from panel nr. 2 can be viewed HERE

• PENIN Julien, Prof., Faculty of economics and management, University of Strasbourg, who spoke about „Obstacle or accelerator of innovation? Intellectual property at a crossroads„. Discussions on this topic continued in panel nr. 3 entitled „European Integration and Intellectual Property Protection”, this panel being moderated by Dr. Hab. Olesea Plotnic and Dr. Dorin Cimil.

The video recording with the discussions from panel nr. 3 can be viewed HERE

During the conference, researchers from such countries as: France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, presented their results.

The theme of the conference and the topics addressed during the event were of great interest, being registered over 90 participants.

We would like to thank the partners of the EUPROIN project:

1) State Intellectual Property Agency (AGEPI), which provided speakers in the conference panels

2) The Embassy of France in Moldova and the French Alliance in Moldova for the co-financing of AO Henri Capitant in the implementation of the project.

Thank you all for contributing to the success of the conference and active participation in the debates!

Some screenshots from the conference can be accessed HERE 

Today, March 9, 2021, a seminar entitled „European Union and Intellectual Property Protection” was organized for approx. 30 young people from the left bank of the Dniester, Tiraspol.

The event was organized within the Jean Monnet Support to Associations project in European Integration and Intellectual Property Protection Studies / EUPROIN, no. ref. 611344-EPP-1-2019-1-MD-EPPJMO-SUPPA, implemented by the AO of Legal Culture Henri Capitant, with the support of the Erasmus + program of the European Union.

This seminar was organized in collaboration with the State University of Tiraspol „Taras Shevcenco”, which, during this event, was represented by Ms. Vladlena LISENCO, Dr. Hab., Associate professor, who also moderated this event.

As speakers in this seminar participated:

– Rodica Crudu, PhD, associate professor, coordinator of the EUPROIN project, who made a presentation of the project, but also spoke about the regulatory framework for intellectual property protection in the context of implementing the Association Agreement with the European Union;

– Vladlena Lisenco, member of the EUPROIN project implementation team, who spoke on the legal dimension of intellectual property protection policy and competition policy;

– Olesea Plotnic, dr. hab., member of the EUPROIN project implementation team, with the presentation “Entrepreneurial activity in the exercise of intellectual property rights. Aspects of national and EU legislation „

The guest speaker at this seminar was Dr. Karsten NOWROT, Professor of Public Law, European Law and International Economic Law at Hamburg University, Germany, who spoke to young people about “Ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines in the light of intellectual property rights – Regulatory Options under the TRIPS Agreement”.

All the presentation presented high interest to the participants of this seminar, which ended with a Questions and Answers session.

The Program of the seminar can be accessed HERE.

If you did not manage to attend the seminar, you can see the viodeo recording of the event HERE

Some screenshots/ photos from the event can be seen HERE

Thank you everyone for attending the seminar!