The Industrial Property Office is one of the central state administration bodies of the Czech Republic, and besides the function of the patent and trademark authority it performs also the function of a special information centre of industrial property. The Office deals with education of the public regarding industrial rights by way of e-learning courses and regular seminars. For several last years it has endeavoured to educate also pupils and students at elementary and secondary schools with regard to awareness of industrial rights. It has prepared lectures and teaching materials for them, explaining various issues of industrial rights in attractive and entertaining ways. The Office intermediates a lot of information from the field of industrial rights to the public also through the Internet. On the Internet it is also possible to find review databases – these are the database of patents and utility designs, database of trademarks, database of industrial designs and database of identification of the origin and geographical markings. In these systems it is possible to carry out informative reviews free of charge.
On the stand of the Industrial Property Office, visitors will be able to find various information and national as well as international information databases of industrial rights, which the Office also makes accessible on its web site, and they can get familiar with the ways of how to search for the information on the state of the art there and how to consult a wide range of issues relating to the sector of industrial rights.
