Regional Seminar "Intellectual Property in the Modern World: New Challenges" is held in Minsk on February 25-26, 2020
Regional seminar "Intellectual Property in Today's World: New Challenges" took place on February 25-26, 2020 in the "Victoria Olympus" hotel (Calgary hall) in Minsk.
The international forum was organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus (SCST), the National Center of Intellectual Property (NCIP), and the Intellectual Property Protection Association "BelBrand" (BelBrand).
The participants of the seminar discussed the challenges that have recently appeared in the intellectual property in the world. The seminar focused on the future of the national intellectual property system of the Republic of Belarus, education and training in the field of intellectual property, cooperation between science and industry, practice and issues of intellectual property assessment and accounting in the Republic of Belarus, as well as intellectual property rights protection and data security issues in the context of global digitalization.
Speakers from the Republic of Belarus, WIPO, Kazakhstan, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovenia attended the seminar. With particular interest the audience listened to the presentation by Mr. Michael Schwantner, Director of the Department for Transition and Developed Economies of WIPO, who delivered a report on "WIPO Activities in the Context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals".
Vyacheslav Trofimov, Director of the "BelpatentService" BelCCI, patent attorney presented his report "Software Patenting in the World: Trends and Perspectives" in the 7th section of the seminar "Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the Context of Global Digitalization". The report provided an overview of the patent statistics in the field of software in the world and in individual countries (the USA, PRC, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Belarus) and analyzed the software patenting in these countries by the leading IT-companies of the world. In addition, the possibility of software patenting was shown by individual examples despite the legal prohibition in most countries of the world to patent computer software as it is.
