site.btaBTA, Patent Office Start "Created in Bulgaria" Subsection, in Bulgarian and English, to Present Bulgarian Inventions

The President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Prof. Dr Vladia Borisova, and the Director General of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), Kiril Valchev, signed a Partnership Agreement between the two institutions here on Friday.

Under the agreement, the Agency will popularize the Golden Book of the Office by presenting the most prominent Bulgarian inventors and their achievements "so as to preserve the memory of each of these persons," in Valchev's words. 

The BTA Director General recalled that the Golden Book was established in 1981, 41 years ago, and that once a year the names of most prominent Bulgarian inventors are inscribed in it as a token of acknowledgment.

BTA will launch a new subsection titled Created in Bulgaria in both Bulgarian and English, which will profile the 130 Bulgarians listed in the Golden Book (both living and late) and will present the activities of the Patent Office, Valchev said. The first information campaign that BTA is planning is about the Unified Patent Court and the entry into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, which will be applied in the EU as from 2023.

Prof. Borisova recalled that Bulgaria is actively involved in the establishment of the Unified Patent Court and in the entry into force of the Agreement and that Judge Tatyana Zhilova has already been appointed to the Court of First Instance.

On Friday, BTA published video interviews with the scientists who were included in the Golden Book this year, Prof. Pavlinka Dolashka and Prof. Kostadin Kostadinov, and Prof. Toms Hrant Dersarkissian who received the General Contribution to Industrial Property Award. Prof. Dersarkissian, who attended the signing of the Partnership Agreement, said he hopes that the new BTA section will reach employers who should provide inventors with the financial and human resources they need for their work.

Valchev said that the new subsection will be part of the Agency's Economy Section because this news feed targets above all the business community.

Prof. Borisova noted that the Patent Office offers a variety of services to businesses and inventors so that a genuine transfer of technologies could be implemented, making it possible to generate added value, translating innovation into products available to all society. She pointed out that the Patent Office has reached agreement with the European Patent Office and the Institute of Law, Economics and Intellectual Property at Sofia University on the establishment of a hub in Bulgaria enabling universities and inventors to acquire knowledge in the field of intellectual property and technology transfer. Prof. Borisova stressed that this is an achievement at national level and an international recognition for the activities of the Patent Office and for the potential of Bulgarian economy.

Valchev said that on the basis of its own archives and the Patent Office records, BTA will devote some of the next issues of its online publication on education, science and culture (LIK) to the sceintific achievements of Bulgarian inventors.