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IFIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

MEETING 2017 IS HELD Dr. Adnan Fahad Al-Naimi, the representative of mote the culture of innovation and invention

IN GERMANY Qatar Scientific Club and President of Agri-Green in the Middle East countries.
Foundation in the State of Qatar nominated for

Mr. Zengpei Xuan, the representative of China
candidacy of the IFIA presidency in addition to
Mr. Alireza Rastegar, the current President of IFIA. Association of Inventions (IFIA Full Member),
IFIA Executive Committee Meeting was Both requests were approved by the Executive expressed willingness to establish IFIA Tech-
organized with the participation of 18 delegates IFIA Activity Report 2017 was then provided which Committee members to be voted during IFIA up- nology Transfer Office in China. The details
on 05 No vember 2017 alongside iENA gained the approval of the members and the coming General Assembly. of this proposal were determined to be dis-
International Invention Fair, in Nuremberg, balance sheet 2017 was also ratified by the majority cussed during World Invention and Innova-
Germany from 10.30 AM to 12.30. of votes. Mr. Majid El Bouazzaoui had requested to change tion Forum (WIIF) to be organized in Foshan
the membership status of OFEED (Morocco) from City, China.
Mr. Alireza Rastegar, IFIA President, summoned Executive Committee candidates who had already the corresponding category to the Full member-
the members and thanked them for their sent their request letter to IFIA Secretariat were ship considering the suspension of “Union of Mr. Hans-Georg Torkel, the president of Ger-
participation in IFIA meeting. Also, he expressed his examined and twenty three of them were approved Inventors” activities. IFIA Executive Committee man Inventors Association (DEV), IFIA Full
appreciation to Mr. Henning Koenicke for hosting to be voted by the upcoming General Assembly in members cast the majority of positive votes in Member, delivered explanations on the coop-
IFIA meeting again. 2018. this regard. eration exiting between Association of Euro-
pean Inventors (AEI) and DEV for promoting
IFIA Secretariat also received a request from Ro- innovation among the youth. He invited IFIA
manian Inventors Forum, IFIA Corresponding to join this program and support it.
member, applying for Full membership status.
IFIA Executive Committee members admitted to Finally, it was decided that IFIA Secretariat
change the membership status from correspond- should inform the members about the exact
ing to full category regarding the outstanding date and venue of IFIA upcoming General As-
activities performed by this association. sembly in due time.

Dr. Aynampudi Subbarao, the president of In-
dian Innovators Association (IFIA Full Member),
handed over copies of his book titled – Patent
Licensing, Technology Commercialisation and
Innovation Marketing to IFIA during the meet-
ing and also invited all IFIA members to translate
the book in their language edition offering roy-
alty free copyright license to all IFIA members.
The book is now available for online purchase at
Amazon, eBook version in kindle, and iTunes.

Dr. Radwan Chouaib, the representative of Na-
tional Association for Science and Research in
Lebanon (IFIA Full Member), explained the vision
of IFIA Focal Point in Middle East (FPME) to pro-

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