WIPO-IFIA International Symposium on
Inventors and Information Technology

PROGRAM House of Technics, Budapest, V. Kossuth tér 6/8

Monday, March 16

8.00 Registration
10.00 Opening ceremony
Addresses by:
Mr. Lajos Nyiri President of National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB)
The Representative of Director General of WIPO
Mr. Farag Moussa President of IFIA
Miklós Bendzsel President of the Hungarian Patent Office
10.30 Break
11.00 Address by: Mr. Antal K. Bejczy, Professor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
12.30 Lunch break
14.30 Patent Information in Support of Inventive and Innovative Activities:
General Introduction

Addresses by:

Gordon Cummer, Chief Executive Officer Canadian Industrial Innovation Centre, Waterloo, Canada
Vladimir Yossifov, Deputy Director, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland
15.00 Discussion
15.45 Break
16.15 How Inventors' Association Can Help Its Members to Invent in Response to Real Needs of Industry?
Address by Kari Sipilä, Managing Director, Foundation of Finnish Inventions, Espoo, Finland
16.45 Discussion
18.00 Reception hosted by WIPO

Tuesday, March 17

09.00 Use of the State-of-the-Art Searches in Inventive and Innovative Activities

Addresses by:

Judit Hajdú, Hungarian Patent Office, Budapest
Zsuzsa Tör?csik, Hungarian Patent Office, Budapest
09.45 Discussion
10.30 Break
11.00 Inventors as Active Providers of Information

Address by Mamadou Traoré, President, Ivoirian Association for the Promotion of Inventions and Innovations, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
11.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 INTERNET for Inventors Demonstration by the Hungarian Patent Office of modern information technology (CD-ROM, Data-Base Searches, INTERNET)
15.30 Inventions taken to the market; New Canadian Experiences on using the Internet

Address by Gordon Cummer
16.00 INTERNET On-line Discussion (www.inventor.hu) On the ways and means of using by inventors and inventors' associations with the direct participation of INTERNET users (on-line) from some selected countries
19.00 "The Press and the Inventors in the Same Boat"
Reception and the exclusive opening of the "Cartoonists and their Inventions" international IFIA exhibition, hosted by SBG&K International Patent Attorneys.
Location: "Kossuth Steamship" at Dock No. 2 on the Pest Side of the Danube River near Lánchíd

Wednesday, March 18

09.00 Round Table on the Use of INTERNET as Source of Information and Means of Communication in Innovative Activities

Miklós Bendzsel, Gordon Cummer, Farag Moussa, Kari Sipilä, Mamadou Traoré, Vadász Ágnes, Vladimir Yossifov
11.00 Break
11.30 Jubilee IFIA General Assembly
13.00 Lunch Break
14.30 Jubilee IFIA General Assembly (continued)
19.00 Celebration of IFIA's 30 years Jubilee Gala concert and Reception hosted by Association of Hungarian Inventors Venue: Vigadó Palace, Budapest, V. Vigadó tér 2.
Sponsored by Danubia Patent and Trademark Attorneys

Thursday, March 19

10.00 Closing session of the International Symposium

Document prepared by the
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Terms of participation

A participant will be registered to the International Symposium on payment of 350 DEM participation fee, or he/she is a participant in the First Inventors' Olympic Games or a member of the IFIA, or a delegate of the IFIA Jubilee General Assembly.

A registered participant is entitled to participate in the Symposium's work, in the WIPO Reception, he/she can be present at the IFIA Jubilee General Assembly and at the reception and celebration in the Vigadó Palace. He/she can visit the Inventors' Olympic Games free of charge and will receive the papers of the Symposium free of charge.