Day of the Inventor and Innovator of Ukraine (17/09)

Every year on the third Saturday of September, Ukraine celebrates Inventor and Innovator Day (Ukrainian). Day of the Vinaiknik and the Racionalizer), which is established in accordance with Presidential Decree № 443/94 of August 16, 1994.

Inventive and rationalization activities in Ukraine are regulated by the Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property — Ukrpatent.

In Ukraine, there is a Law «On the Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models» (№ 3687-CP dated December 15, 1993), according to which the invention — is the result of human intellectual activity in any technology. The right to obtain a patent is held by the inventor or inventors who jointly created the invention. But if the invention is created as a result of the performance of official duties, then the employer of the inventor has the right to obtain a patent for such an official invention (useful model).

It is the inventor who has the right of authorship, which is an inalienable personal right and is protected indefinitely. The Constitution of Ukraine guarantees citizens the right to own, use and dispose of their intellectual property art. 41).

Also, Article 54 of the Constitution of Ukraine guarantees the protection of the moral and material interests of the author. Every citizen has the right to the results of his intellectual activity.

Inventor and Innovator Day brings together people of different professions and specialties, but they are all endowed with a rare gift of creativity, a sense of the new, the ability to expand the boundaries of the familiar and go beyond stereotypes.

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