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3 Dr. Friedrich BURMESTER

From 1976 to 1980

4 Mr. Leif Gottfred Nordstrand

From 1980 to 1988

Leif Gottfred Nordstrand was elected as the President of the

International Federation of Inventors Associations (IFIA) from 1977

t o 1982. He was a Norwegian electrical engineer in 1936. He started

working in the Board for Industrial Property Office (NIPO) as a chief engineer in

1947. Afterward, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Patent Office in 1961; He

succeeded to be its director from 1965 to 1978.

He sat in a German prison from 1941 to 1945; since he was active in the political

prisoners’ organizations, including organizing activities for the promotion of the

compensation claim against Germany; Moreover, he was the chairman of the

Compensation Council committee and member of the committee that drafted

the law of 1960 on the division of the German substitutes.
5 Mr. Clarence P. Feldmann

From 1988 to 1992

Clarence P. Feldmann was elected as the President of IFIA from

1986 to 1990. From 1972, he was General Secretary and Vice-

President of the Inventors’ Association of Switzerland, as well as its

delegate to the International Federation of Inventors Associations (IFIA). Then,

he was elected as a member of the EPI council in 1997. He is the author of the

“International Invention Guide” that was translated into eight languages.

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