To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
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Dr. Emil Benatov

14.06.1950 - 06.07.2017

Professional activities

  • since 2007 — European Trademark and Design Attorney
  • since 2002 — European Patent Attorney
  • since 1993 — founder and senior partner of the Patent Bureau "Dr. Emil Benatov & Partners"
  • since 1993 — Patent Attorney of the Republic of Bulgaria
  • 1982 – 1993 — Examiner and subsequently a head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Bulgarian Patent Office

Education

  • 1991 — Management and Marketing Specialist
    Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  • 1983 — Patent Specialist
    Technical University of Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria
  • 1981 — Ph.D. programme in Cybernetics
    Lviv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
  • 1974 — cybernetics engineer
    Lviv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine

Scientific and public activities

  • 2005 – 2011 — Vice President of the Disciplinary Committee of the European Patent Institute (EPI)
  • 2003 – 2011 — Council Member of the European Patent Institute (EPI)
  • 1993 – 2003 — President of Intellectual Property Appraisers Section (Bulgarian Association of Business Appraisers)
  • since 1991 — President of the Union of Patent Specialists in Bulgaria
  • 1981 — Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Architecture Study and Development of Radio Control Systems for Automated Control over Mobile Machines Testing”
  • Author of 50 scientific works and 7 inventions