Director General

Ljiljana Kuterovac, MSc   Director General
  Born on
11. August 1967 in Zagreb

EDUCATION

   
2007 - 2008   Faculty of Law in Turin (Italy) and the World Academy with the World Intellectual Property Organization, joint postgraduate programme – Master of Laws in Intellectual Property (LLM)
1992 - 1995   Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb, postgraduate scientific study – Master of Science (MSc)
1986 - 1991   Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb, graduate study – bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (BSc)
     

WORK EXPERIENCE

   
2008 - 2012   Deputy Director General, State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia
2004 - 2008   Assistant Director General, Information and Cooperation Department (Intellectual Property System Development Department), State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia
2002 - 2004   Senior Expert Adviser at the Unit for  information and Cooperation  in the Field of Intellectual Property, State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia
1999 - 2002   Head of the Section for Cooperation with Economic Entities, State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia
1991 - 1999   Research Assistant,  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb
     

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

   
November 2011   Executive Education “Leadership Decision Making”, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (USA)
September 2011   On-line course “Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights”, World Trade Organization
May 2011   WIPO/WTO Advanced Course on Intellectual Property, Geneva (Switzerland)
April 2011   On-line course “Introduction to the WTO”, World Trade Organization
December 2010   Seminar on the “Strategic Planning in the Context of European Integrations”, Centre for Vocational Training and Professional Improvement of Civil Servants, Zagreb
January 2009   Executive Education “21st Century Governance: Critical Skills for Leading and Sustaining Innovative Organizations”, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Zagreb
June 2007   Seminar on the “Opposition and Appeals Procedures at the European Patent Office”, European Patent Academy, Munich (Germany)
October 2006   USPTO Global Intellectual Property Academy Patents Program, Alexandria (USA)
September 2006   Seminar on the Patent Mapping, European Patent Academy, Vienna (Austria)
June 2006   Course on “Project Management Basics”, IBM Certification Knowledge Centre, Zagreb
May 2006   Seminar on the IP Information Sharing, European Patent Academy, Prague (Czech Republic)
October 2005   Seminar on the Design of Innovation Support Campaigns, European Patent Academy, Newport (United Kingdom)
May 2004   Seminar on the Patent Documentation and Classification, International Academy of the European Patent Office, Hague (Netherlands)
November 2003   German courses for high-ranked civil servants from the EU acceding countries, organized by the Goethe Institute, Berlin (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium)
April 2002 – April 2003   Courses of “German for Lawyers”, Goethe Institute, Zagreb
May 2002   Seminar on the “Law Basics of the European Communities”, Ministry for European Integrations, Zagreb
March 2002   Seminar on the “European Union Basics”, Ministry for European Integrations, Zagreb
     

MEMBERSHIPS

  Supervisory Board of the Academy of the European Patent Organization (deputy member 2011 – 2013, member 2013 – 2016); in October 2015 elected Chair of the Assembly of the Patent Law Treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
     

AWARDS

  Microsoft award for the best final paper within master’s degree programme in the field of intellectual property 2007-2008; “Josip Lončar” silver plaque of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb for the outstanding master’s thesis.
     

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PAPERS

  Author or co-author of 6 published research papers in the field of intellectual property; author or co-author of 14 published scientific research papers in the field of electric engineering and 6 research studies in the same field.
     

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

   
English   Proficient user (C2)
German   Independent user (B2)
French   Independent user (B1)
Spanish   Basic User (A2)