State Agency on Intellectual Property announces the continuation of the Republican Competition on the evidence of the most active journalists reflecting the intellectual property subjects in the mass-media.

The aim of the competition consists in acquainting the large public with the intellectual property field including the aspects relating to the creation, legal protection and utilization of the industrial and intellectual property objects.

In the competition may take part the professional journalists and the untitled authors of the information media publishing or making translations on the information subjects, analyzing and synthesizing, others studies within the period of July 1, 2007 up to April 1, 2008.

At the valuation of the represented materials the Commission will take in the consideration:

1. the professionalism and the mode of lighting the intellectual property matters;
2. the intensity and the originality of the expounding;
3. the capacity of accounting the facts, precision of documentation and citation of the sources, knowledge in the given field;
4. the continuity of the subject rubrics in the writing media, radio and TV broadcasting etc.

The prizes are foreseen for the following information media:

1. press-agencies, newspapers, journals
2. radio and TV broadcasting

AGEPI will award the following prizes:

The writing mass-media:

The I prize – 1000 Leis
The II prize – 750 Leis
The III prize – 500 Leis

Audiovisual:

The I prize – 1000 Leis
The II prize – 750 Leis
The III prize – 500 Leis

The published or broadcasted reference sources annexed to the brief Curriculum vitae of the participant shall be represented with AGEPI (A. Doga str. 24/1, MD-2024, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) or by e-mail svetlana.tacu@agepi.md up to April 20 2008.