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Organizer and Chairman for CARDS 2002 IPR Programme:
 
10-11 March 2005 – Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Seminar AW1/PU: Copyrights and Related Rights
Dedicated to Digital Rights Management, its impact on the Media Market and last development in terms of EU policy. With this event, CARDS Regional IPR project further promoted regional cooperation and help the private sector to integrate Intellectual Property in its business approach on the way to development on international market.
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4 – 5 February 2005 – Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro
CARDS Regional IPR Project - IV Cooperation Committee Meeting
Committee meeting was opened by the Minister for Internal Economic relations of Serbia and Montenegro, Mr. Amir Nurkovic. Representatives from EC, EPO, WIPO, OHIM, and five CARDS states were present. Committee adopted work plan for the first six months in 2005 and drafted the activity plan for the second part of the year 2005
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6 – 7 December 2004 – Zagreb, Croatia
AW13/PU Workshop on Licensing, Innovation Support and Technology Transfer
Topics covered the recent developments at SIPO, developments regarding SAP, regarding CARDS IPR project, WIPO developments etc. Workshop presentations covered tools for licensing and technology transfer, innovation management at universities to support emerging start-ups, case study of license enabling technology transfer
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22 – 23 November 2004, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Seminar AW10/PU: Geographical Indications
The EU framework for protection of geographical indications was presented on this seminar. This included geographical indications for wines, spirits and other products (agricultural and not), role of inspection structures, some elements for a model of GI applications, industry experience, etc.
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4 -7 October 2004 – Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Operational seminar EF1/PU: the Role of Customs in Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
Designed for Customs operational officers and consisted of practical exercise on risk analysis and targeting counterfeited and pirated goods, including best European and international practice in the field of Customs enforcement.
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28-29 June 2004 - Durres, Albania
Seminar PU: III Co-operation Committee Meeting
Heads of CARDS IPO’s got together with the EC, EPO and OHIM to exchange the views on current IP issues in the Balkan Region, and to discuss the next annual work plan which will cover period of 2nd semester 2004.
Files:   20040628_29_prog.pdf 
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24- 25 June 2004 -Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina
EF3/CoE Enforcement-Target Group/Judges, prosecutors, police and custom
The seminar introduce the best practices in the field of criminal and civil enforcement of IP rights.
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7-8 June 2004 Zagreb, Croatia
Seminar AW7/OH: Trade Mark Filling-CTM
On the course of the inception phase, the CARDS offices have stressed the importance of rapidly increasing the awareness on trade mark issues among the regional interested IP circles according with the EU standards and particularly with the OHIM’s state of art practice. The aim of this workshop is to bring representative from each CARDS participating country to gather to discuss and exchange views on the methods, procedures, and practices that the OHIM undertakes to filling and registering trade marks.
Files:   aw7oh_desc.pdf   aw7oh_prog.pdf 
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3 - 4 June 2004 – Zagreb, Croatia
Seminar EF2: Enforcement Practice
The seminar introduces the best practices in the field of criminal and civil enforcement of IP rights. Moreover it will define the specific role of business in this process. The seminar will provide participants with various anti counterfeiting strategies: Investigative techniques; drafting a "process verbal prosecution", hearing witnesses, defending the case in Court.
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