The representatives of the State Agency on Intellectual Property (AGEPI) participated on 12 March this year in the Conference “The Development of Intellectual Property in the EU and Moldova: Challenges and Perspectives”, which took place online.

The event was organized by the Association of Legal Culture Henri Capitant Moldova, in collaboration with AGEPI. The Conference was attended by representatives of public authorities, higher education institutions, research and development organizations and the business environment.

The purpose of the event was to strengthen understanding and awareness of researchers in Moldova on intellectual property (IP) development in the EU and Moldova, to inform and raise awareness of NGO representatives and civil servants in our country on the importance of IP development for Moldova’s integration and economic growth, to analyze the achievements and problems of IP development in the EU and Moldova, to increase the research visibility of the Republic of Moldova on issues related to IP protection, etc.

In the opening of the online event, Natalia Mogol, Deputy Director General of the State Agency on Intellectual Property, mentioned that: “AGEPI makes considerable efforts in promoting intellectual property knowledge, and today’s Conference is an excellent platform for the transfer of knowledge and good practices, for debating and identifying the best solutions to increase competitiveness by capitalizing on intellectual property objects.”

The discussions in the conference were structured on the following panels:

• Intellectual property and competition: interference and challenges,
• Intellectual property and creative industries,
• European integration and intellectual property protection.

During the event, participants had the opportunity to connect to an interactive environment and to ask questions to the speakers, including specialists from AGEPI with vast experience in the fields addressed: Natalia Mogol, key expert in the Jean Monnet EUPROIN Project, Deputy Director General of AGEPI, Andrei Moisei, Principal Consultant within AGEPI and Rodica Popescu, Head of AGEPI Copyright Department. The people present at this online conference obtained complex information on the development of intellectual property in the EU and Moldova.

If you failed to participate online, you can watch the event on the Jean Monnet Project Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixlUAjQ1xYw.