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Workshop

One of the main activities of IFIA, in order to further promote the culture of invention and

innovation, is to organize IFIA International Workshops worldwide to raise awareness

about Intellectual Property Rights. IP constitutes a wide range of rights including

copyright, patent, trademark, industrial design, and geographical indication, the

protection of them is vital for the creator.

IFIA undertakes it as an obligation to train the individual inventors about the necessity

of International Patent Protection and other related issues in order to ensure the

protection of the Inventor’s rights and avoid any kind of violation.

Relying on the lasting cooperation between IFIA and WIPO, IFIA holds some joint PCT

workshops in order to acquaint the inventors with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

alongside IFIA International Invention Exhibitions. The inventors are made aware that

how obtaining patent provides its owner with the “exclusive right” and enables the

patent owner to recoup development costs and obtain a return of investment in the

development of the patented technology.

As technology and markets tend to be increasingly global in nature, the availability

of international patent protection takes on greater importance to the inventors

and owners of intellectual property. In such a climate, IFIA is making serious

attempts to raise awareness about the International Patent Protection since

there is a remarkable growth rate of PCT as an important tool in such filings over

the last decades.

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