EDUCATION:

Civil Engineer (1972), University of Architecture, Geodesy and Civil Engineering, Sofia;

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND :

1972-1977. Designer in AGROPROMPROEKT Ltd.,Sofia;

• Patent Specialist (1980), Technical University, Sofia;

• 1978-1997. Service for the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria as an examiner and then as a state examiner in the field of building, building technology, high-rise building and industrial construction, hydraulic engineering, road and railway construction and tunneling;

• 1987-1989. Lecturer on Protection of Intellectual Property in Technical University, Sofia;

  1993. Appraiser with the Bulgarian Privatization Agency;

• 1994 Lecturer on Protection and Appraisal of Intellectual Property in First Private Business College FUMI;

• 1994 Lecturer on Protection and Appraisal of Intellectual Property;

• 1997. Industrial Property Representative (Patent Attorney) under Art. 3 of the Bulgarian Patent Low.

• LANGUAGES: - English, French, Russian.

  SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS:

• Vice-president of the Union of Patent Specialists in Bulgaria

• Vice-president of the Intellectual Property Appraisers section in the Bulgarian Association of Business Appraisers

• SOCIAL STATUS: Married with two children.

  MEMBERSHIP: - LES(License executive society), UPSB, BABA, Licensing executives society; Union of patent specialists, Bulgarian association of business appraisers

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