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In 2020, 1317 international trade mark applications were filed, which is nearly 30% less than that of the previous year (1705). During 2020 the Office carried out the examination of 1465 international trade mark applications and requests for subsequent extensions of territory, recognising international trade mark protection in 1344 cases, thus the protections granted decreased by 25 % compared to 2019.
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Besides, the examination of 6 applications for protection from Hungary were was still pending at the end of the year.
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The Unified Administrative System of the Office comprise comprises the bibliographic and image data, the documents and the official letters that belong to the different intellectual property rights, namely patent, plant variety protection, spc, utility model, trademark, industrial design.
The public electronic-databases GAZETTE, IP-SEARCH, E-REGISTER, E-DOSSIER are also used by the Examiners. The IP-SEARCH database has an internal version for internal use only with the additional data that are not accessible for the public.
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In 2020 it was a priority objective to spread IP knowledge and to develop industrial property and copyright culture among enterprises and higher education institutions.
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HIPO took part in the HungarianBridges (Hu.B) Reload Hungary programme, operating with 12 member organisations, which as an incubator assists the unfolding of the potential residing in the new generation (secondary school students), and supports the SMEs and bogus self-employed persons to restart their enterprises in realising their innovative ideas.s..
Renewed IPARJOG call for applications
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(2020-1.1.3-IPARJOG) one may apply for a flateflat-rate support for Hungarian, international and European patent, utility model, design and trade mark applications.
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After the Government declared the state of danger due to the pandemic, HIPO significantly revised its education and training concept, prepared its online training scheme on MS Teams platform, and rescheduled its ongoing and already announced trainings accordingly.
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The launch of the publication “Distinction between grain refuse and wheat – counterfeiting of works of art with Hungarian eyes” was on 26 February 2020. The latest volumes of the NBAC brochures were published, which reviewed the previous year’s events (NBAC – Annual Report 2019) and summarised the board’s researches.
In 2020, NBAC , repeated its survey on the youth’s customs and change of attitude towards digital contents and counterfeiting. According to the survey, as a result of the increased use of streaming illegal downloading decreased. During the coronavirus pandemic the consumption of legal digital contents further increased.
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