The Patent and Licensing Department Dnipro University of Technology  was founded in 1972.

Head of the Department – Nataliia Perederiy 

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According to the current regulatory framework of the patent legislation of Ukraine, patent and licensing work in higher education institutions: is organized as follows:

1. Organizational and methodological cooperation with all structural subdivisions in the implementation of applied and fundamental research projects, scientific, technical and course projects, dissertations, etc.;

2. Systematic consultations of the owners of scientific R&D by IPL specialists and their mutual cooperation during formal and preliminary qualification examination of new technical solutions in terms of their compliance with an appropriate technical level of research results

3. Providing consultations and practical assistance from patent specialists on legal issues in patenting of new technical solutions in various fields;

4. Patent research, as a determination of the patentability of objects of economic activity, the situation regarding the use of rights to industrial property objects, as well as the detection of violations of the rights of owners of valid titles of protection in accordance with DSTU 3575-97;

5. Formation and improvement of the database of intellectual property rights;

6. Participation in the drafting of license agreements, brochures;

7. Monitoring of a multi-procedural patenting system in IP Office for each technical solution of the HEE;

8. Formation and processing of the fund of patent documentation of the HEE.

Systematically, when performing diploma projects, dissertations and research papers, new technical solutions are revealed. A preliminary technical examination is underway. Every year, applications for envisaged inventions and utility models in priority areas of science and technology are sent to IP Office, most of which are with the participation of doctoral students, graduate students, and students.