Department of Scientific and Medical Information and Intellectual Property

Address

Lviv, 6, Sichovyh Striltsiv street
e-mail: avfitkalo@gmail.com
Phone: +38 (032) 255-31-29

E-mail

Head of the department


Anna FITKALO

Activities of the department

The Department of Scientific and Medical Information and Intellectual Property, as a separate full-time unit of the University, was created in 1973. Since 1994, as a result of the reorientation of the state medical information system in Ukraine, the Department combines two sectors: Scientific and Informational and Intellectual Property (patent and licensing).

The main tasks of scientific information and patent activity of The Department of Scientific and Medical Information and Intellectual Property at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University are:
• Collection, formation and preservation of an array of scientific information about the latest scientific and information technologies in order to effectively use them in the processes of patent and information development as a support for all stages of dissertation and scientific research works;
• Interaction with structural divisions of the University, studying their information needs, carrying out organizational and methodical work to ensure timely, reliable and up-to-date information for employees, graduate students of the University;
• Issuance of orders from employees, graduate students for the development, provision and support of all stages of dissertation and scientific research works;
• Participation in the annual reception of scientific reports of dissertation and scientific research works (collection and analysis of the publishing activity of departments);
• Operational accounting of the publishing activities of University employees and preparation of reports at the request of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the rector, the vice-rector for scientific research;
• Acquaintance with new scientific and informational technologies to increase the scientific and informational competence of medical University scientists (course of lectures for graduate students and applicants).


Patent and information work, as part of scientific research processes, according to the scientific topics of the University, includes:
• Consultations of employees in the creation and protection of intellectual property objects (inventions, utility models, copyright certificates for works, research proposals, etc.);
• Filing applications for patents (utility model, invention) and submitting them for examination, record keeping, correspondence with authors, etc.;
• Organizational questions about the payment of the necessary fees for actions related to the protection of patent rights, which are carried out through the University;
• Keeping records of positive decisions for obtaining patents, submitting relevant reports on the state of patent work to relevant organizations and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine;
• Completion and submission of electronic documents for obtaining an author's certificate for a research;
• Preparation, printing, distribution of newsletters, methodological recommendations to promote the implementation of innovative technologies in medicine;
• Formation of the list of scientific and practical events planned by Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University for inclusion in the Register of Congresses, Congresses, Symposiums and Scientific and Practical Conferences of the Testing Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine;
• Filing of applications, through the Testing Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, for inclusion in the list of scientific (scientific and technical) products intended for the implementation of the achievements of medical science in the field of health care;
• Indexing of articles, titles of dissertation topics, of dissertation and scientific research works and search subjects for them.

Staff of the department

O. YURKEVICH, M. KARACHINTSEVA, L. PROKHOVNYK“]