organized by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with Industrial Property Offices of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland and hosted by the National Office of Inventions of Hungary; Table of Contents : Opening address by Erno? Pungor; Opening address by Paul Braendli; JURCEKA, Milan. Industrial property rights in the period of transition to the market economy; FRANZONE, Daniele. La proprie?te? intellectuelle, industrielle et commerciale dans les relations entre communaute? et pays d'Europe centrale et orientale; CURCHOD, Franc?ois. International trends in industrial property law : the PCT : How to use it advantageously; PAPACONSTANTINOU, He?le?ne. Role and functions of the patent agent; GOLDRIAN, Hans. Patent Strategy in an industrial undertaking; TICHY, Jaromi?r. Patents in industrial concerns in Czechoslovakia; SGARBI, Renato. Patents and drugs, pharmaceutical industries and product protection : the Italian experience; BUZAS, La?szlo?. Patents and drugs; JAKL, Ladislav. Changes in the field of industrial property protection in Czechoslovakia; IVANYI, Istva?n. The industrial property system in Hungary; KORTABA, Wieslaw. The system of protection for industrial property in Poland.