April 26, 2016 in "KPI" the celebration of the World Intellectual Property Day took place. It was attended by representatives of the administration, teachers, students, co-workers of the Department of Intellectual Property and Commercialization of scientific developments of "KPI", the members of EKC dealing with intellectual property issues, representatives of the Research Institute of forensic expertise on intellectual property and others. The Vice-Rector of the Research Department V. A. Barbash welcomed the participants and noted the achievements of the University representatives in the innovation sphere, expressed his gratitude and presented awards to employees and students for active work in the field of intellectual property. In particular, he thanked warmly Ph.D., professor of the department of tools and machines design of the MMI Yuriy Mykolaevych Kuznetsov, who has been recently awarded the gold medal "The Outstanding inventor" of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for excellent achievements in the innovation field and important contribution to the development of science and technologies in Ukraine.
Then the research and practice seminar on "Copyright violation in students and teachers’ educational and scientific works in technical universities" organized by the Department of tools and machines design (the head – prof. V. B. Strutynskyy) was held. The problem of academic plagiarism identifying among the students and the graduates looms large in the scientific community. Therefore it’s necessaty to form the culture of fair usage of other authors’ snippets, quotes and graphic materials among KPI students as well. So, the topic chosen for the seminar is relevant and meets the moto of the WIPO established in 2016 – "Creativity in the Digital Environment: Re-thinking of the culture".
The topics of the reports presented at the seminar covered a wide range of issues relating to various areas of intellectual property and relationships, arising in the creation of the objects of intellectual property, realization and protection of the owners’ rights: " Fair practice abidance when using fragments of works by other authors in the thesis and dissertations. The consequences of irresponsible usage "( candidate of agricultural sciences., Dep. Director of the Research Institute of forensic expertise on intellectual property N. V. Kisil); "Intellectual property in technologies transfering systems" (T. V. Pokshevnytska); "The problem of academic plagiarism detection in engineering education sphere" (the assistant professor of the tools and machines design Department O. V. Samoylenko); " Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property and WIPO databases application for the search of similar trademarks" (student of the MMI V. O. Kravets); "Urgent Problems of Intellectual Property" (the FSP student Yu. V. Oleksyuk); "Plagiarism. Its concept and types" (the FSP student D. O. Handoha).
The workshop became an important step to the promotion of the innovative activity development at our University. These meetings facilitate the formation of students’ interest in intellectual property issues and the usage of it in their future professional activities.