GENERAL ALBANIAN PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS OFFICE www.alpto.gov.al Sub-regional seminar on the commercialization and enforcment of intellectual property rights

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GENERAL ALBANIAN PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS
OFFICEwww.alpto.gov.alSub-regional seminar on
the commercialization and enforcment of
intellectual property rights

• LL.M. Mrs. Sonila Elezi
• Head of Legal International Relations Department

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• The main elements of the old actual RD system
  could be summarized as follows
• a network of research institutions is identified
  in the country
• the scientific community depends administratively
  from many ministries
• universities are considered as education and
  research structures with a considerable autonomy
• the Academy of Sciences constitutes an
  independent entity and functions practically as a
  National Research Centre
• Ministries are in charge of a great number of
  research institutes, all of them inherited.

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• Legal Framework
• Law No.7893 date 22.12.1994For the development
  of technology and science
• the division of competence according to the
  levels, thus the vertical administration and
  horizontal autonomy were sanctioned
• the identified network of research institutions
  the way of financing, thus the institutional one
  (budget addressed directly to institutions) and
  the programming one (financing according to
  projects or programs)
• the platform of international relations, the
  involvement of institutes in the network of
  services, especially the monitoring ones.

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• Patent applications in ALPTO only 40 applications
  from the University through EPO for 2008

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• According the Albanian Low on Science Policy and
  Technological Development states
• Scientific and technological activities
  constitute a national priority, the institutions
  responsible for the elaboration and for the
  implementation of the Albanian ST politics are
  pointed out in the Law and, in conformity with
  their functions, constitute a structure with
  three levels political, strategic and
  operational 1.
• Political level consists of the Parliament and
  the Government on the strategic level is the
  Council of the Scientific Policy and
  Technological Development the operational level
  is formed from the Ministry of the education and
  Science (MoES), other Ministries and Academy of
  Sciences.
• The functioning and the relations between those
  institutions is set up mainly on two laws Law on
  Higher Education in the Republic of Albania
  (2/25/1999)-LHE Law Science policy and
  technological development (12/22/1994)-LSPTD
  Status of the Academy of Sciences approved by the
  President of the Republic and Law of the Albanian
  Academy of Sciences (2/03/2004)-LAAS.

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• Human resources RD personnel
• Official statistics for human resources in
  science and technology in Albania for RD
  employees and researchers do not equate to Full
  Time Equivalents (FTE) as defined in the OECDs
  Frascati manual. The only one national
  statistical institution (INSTAT) in Albania has
  not provided the statistics for the RD.
  Especially in the higher education sector,
  researchers are only partly engaged in full-time
  RD activities.
• As one third of funding for researchers in the
  universities is provided by the Ministry of
  Education and Science (Bilateral Programmes with
  Greece, Italy UN and EU programmes TEMPUS,
  NATO-SfP, UNESCO, WHO, PECO, COPERNICUS, LIFE,
  etc.) and two years before from a special grand
  for scientific research only for the
  universities.
• Researchers in Albania are allocated in
• research institutes/centres of Academy of
  Sciences,
• research institutes/centres, and scientific
  stations/incubators of the ministries,
• universities,
• RD units in the private sectors of the industry
  multinational companies Computer sciences, food
  production, technology, civil engineering etc.),
  small and medium enterprises,
• NGO research institutes and research centres.The
  Judgment and Administration of Complaint

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• NATIONAL RD PROGRAMS
• The role of the NRDP is to finance from the State
  Budget bottom-up initiatives for the RD. The
  compilation of each Program of the NRDP describes
  the main development objectives of the priority
  fields. The NRDP prepared by the Group of Experts
  and approved by the standard rules by the Council
  of Science Policy and Technological development.
• MESA is responsible for the implementation and
  financing of the NRDP with the 100 of the
  project cost round 360000 USD per year. The
  programs implemented through projects (standard
  procedures). Project duration is 3 years.
• Respectively the developing of the NRDP was as
  the follow
• A) In the first round of the National RD
  Programs approved for the period 1995-1998 the
  priority areas were Agriculture and Food,
  Energy, Geology Mineral Extraction and
  Elaboration, Biotechnology, Life Sciences,
  Informatics and Information Technology,
  Transportation, Environment Studies, Urbanism,
  Albanology Studies, Social Studies, and
  Materials.
• The financial support of the 38 projects
  implemented in these programmes was 1302013 USD.
• B) The second National RD Programs for the
  period 1999-2002 the priorities fields were
  Albanology, Information System and Technology,
  Biotechnology and Bio-Diversity, Natural
  Resources, Geology, Mineral Extraction and
  Elaboration, Agriculture and Food.
• The financial support of the 43 projects
  implemented in these programmes was 1041811 USD.
• C) During 20032005 period the National RD
  Programs selected on the framework of the
  national priority as fellow Albanology and
  Humanity Studies, IST, Agriculture and Food,
  Health, Natural Resources, Biotechnology and
  Biotechnological Diversity.
• The financial support of the 45 projects
  implemented in these programmes was 1071429 USD.
• D) For the period 2007 2009 the priorities
  fields are Social and Albanology Sciences, ICT,
  Agriculture and Biotechnology, Environment and
  Biodiversity, Health, Water and Energy, Materials.

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• Bilateral Program of Scientific and Technological
  Cooperation
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• has the right to sign a new intergovernmental
  ST agreement
• MOES, Directorate of Scientific Research,
• is responsible for the implementation through
  PROTOCOL
• Republic of Albania up today has 7 Bilateral
  Agreements on Science and Technology (BSTCP),
  with Greece, Italy, Macedonia and Slovenia that
  are active and with Austria, Turkey, and Poland.
  Agreements with Macedonia and Slovenia, Turkey
  and Poland are signed on period 2005 2007, and
  SEE ERA.NET project has completed partially one
  of his duties enlarge of bilateral co operations.

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• During the period 2005 2007 Albania had
• 25 common research projects and 40 mobility
  projects with Italy,
• 32 common research projects with Greece,
• 6 common research projects with Macedonia
• 6 common research projects with Slovenia.
• For the period 2008-2010 Albania has signed the
  new Executive Programme with Italy in which there
  are 25 common research projects and 40 mobility
  projects, with Greece and Slovenia during this
  year will renew the exist protocol, Albania hopes
  that Austria, Poland, Turkey for ratification
  Agreements in their Parliaments and to be ready
  to sign the executive Programmes.
• Albania, in the near future, will increase this
  bilateral co operation, following the objectives
  of Government, and is in discussions with
  Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo and France

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• RD institutions participate in the following
  multilateral programs the focus is thereby on
  EU-programs, UN-programs and on collaboration
  with all the neighbor countries. Albanian
  institutions have many RD relations with the
  foreign homologue institutions. Hence, viewed
  from this perspective, the brain drain of
  scientists from Albania can also have some
  positive impacts on the science system know-how,
  state of art, collaboration in our programs and
  projects etc.
• Albanian Institute of Informatics and Applied
  Mathematics (INIMA), founded in 1986, now under
  Polytechnic University of Tirana, continues to
  play the key role in the international
  co-operation. In the ICT fields, INIMA
  participates in various international scientific
  projects, such as TERENA (Trans European
  Research and Education Network Association),
  SEEREN (South Eastern European Research
  Education Network partners being the
  Polytechnic University of Tirana and the Faculty
  of Economics of the University of Tirana),
  SEE-GRID (South Eastern European GRID-enabled
  e-Infrastructure Development), SEEFIRE
  (South-East Europe Fibre Infrastructure for
  Research and Education), ISOTEIA (Integrated
  System for the promotion of Territorial-Environmen
  tal Impact Assessment in the frame of spatial
  development) etc. (INIMA 2006).

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• RD _ Filing Patent _ Patent_ Commercialization
• it will be next step to follow for Albania after
  the brain drain of scientists!

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