Budapest, January 2007

IFIA Executive Committee meeting 2007 was organized in Budapest on January 22. The following agenda was proposed and approved:

Agenda 

1. Opening of the session

2. General Assembly in 2008

3. Amendment of the IFIA Statues

4. Audit

5. Others

6. Closing of the Session

1. Opening of the session 

The following Executive Committee members were present and the meeting was officially opened by IFIA President, Mr. Vedres:

1. Husein Hujic
2. Fan Minghyi
3. Gérard A. de Villeroche
4.  Joachim Bader
5. Agustine Ong
6. Wouter Pijzel
7. András Vedres

New approved IFIA members:

• Association of Inventors in Moldavia (AIM)
• Asociación de Inventores de Puerto Rico (AIPR)

Participants

ExCo members/observers and European Inventors Network (EIN) members who participated in this meeting:

1. Husein Hujic, ExCo member, Bosna & Herzegovine
2. Fan Minghyi, prof., ExCo member, China
3. Wang Ying, ExCo observer, China
4. Yrjö Rinta-Jouppi, EIN member, Finnland
5. Edmond Tourriol, EIN member, France
6. Gérard A. de Villeroche, ExCo member, France
7. Lydia Zetl, EIN member, Germany
8. Rastegar Abbaa Ali Zadeh Alireza, ExCo observer, Iran
9. Reza Hamd, ExCo observer, Iran
10. Sergejs Matasov, EIN member, Latvia
11. Anda Borisova, EIN member, Latvia
12. Agustine Ong, dr. prof, ExCo member, Malaysia
13. Wouter Pijzel, ExCo member, Netherland
14. Jerzy Polaczek, EIN member, Poland
15. Vladimir Petriasov, EIN member, Russia
16. Vitéz Károly, EIN member, Serbia
17. Lennart Nilsson, EIN member, Sweden
18. James Su, ExCo observer, Taiwan, Province of China
19. János Szöllősy, EIN member, Hungary
20. András Vedres, dr. ExCo member, IFIA president

Accommodations

The above mentioned delegates’ hotel rooms were covered  (January 21-23) by IFIA at Hotel Stadion  with buffet breakfast, lunches on January 22 and 23, dinners on January 22; tickets for Budapest public transportation. Flight tickets contribution (50%) had been paid by IFIA to several non well-to-do delegates.

Program

January 21, Sunday – arriving

January 22, Monday

9. 00 – 13.00             Working session of IFIA (Hotel Stadion)
10. 00 – 14.00             Lunch (Hotel Stadion)
11. 00 – 17.00             Break
12. 00 – 20.00             Working session of IFIA (Hotel Stadion)
13. 00 – 21.00             Dinner (Hotel Stadion)

January 23, Thursday

9. 00 – 10.00    Meeting with the President of the Economic and Information Committee of Hungarian Parliament (Parliament Building, Kossuth tér)
10. 00 – 12.00  Meeting with the President of Hungarian Patent Office and Seminar about IP Protection – First. Part (Kossuth tér – Garibaldi u.)
11. 00 – 13.00  Lunch (Kossuth tér)
12. 00 – 15.30  Seminar about IP Protection – Second Part (ELTE University/Faculty of Law, Egyetem tér; Keynote speech by Brad Smith: “Fostering Economic Growth through Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection”

15.30   End of the IFIA official program